PASADENA, Calif. - Aaron Sorkin, the acclaimed wordsmith behind "The West Wing" and the upcoming "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," was left wishing Friday he could reclaim one public remark.

I collect memories and stories of happy and resilient people. I am thankful that I have the sacred opportunity to step into people's lives and ask them real questions. We ask about their family, their work, their goals, their bodies, their health, their challenges and more.

I collect memories and stories of happy and resilient people. I am thankful that I have the sacred opportunity to step into people's lives and ask them real questions. We ask about their family, their work, their goals, their bodies, their health, their challenges and more.

If you were here a couple of posts back, you would have seen that I’m not exactly enamored of Scott Smith as a mayoral candidate. Well, I’ve made a difference. I’m told he’s sworn off the “mommy” metaphor on which I focused my wrath.

Les Taylor, founder and managing partner of Outperformers International, will present “Stop Walking in Circles” during the Networking@9 event 8:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sept. 7 at the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, 25 S. Arizona Place, Ste 201. His presentation is based on a study that proved absent a map or compass, lost people do walk in circles and end up where they started – the perfect metaphor for what happens to people and groups that don’t have a plan, according to a Chamber news release.

Dr. Michael Loes of Chandler looks at medicine as a vital, energetic science.

The celebrated singing monks of Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery have been at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts the past few days, performing ancient temple music and dances, hosting lectures and creating a painting with millions of grains of sand painstakingly laid to form a mandala, or sacred circle.

One hesitates to use the colloquialism “dodged a bullet” to describe the near miss Gilbert High School just had with the uncovering of an apparent plot by several of its students to carry out a Colombine-style massacre there. The metaphor seems too chillingly apt, given that the school may have just dodged a lot of them.

CHICAGO - The real estate executive was seated comfortably between the bassoons and the violins when the unexpected request came for her to take the podium and conduct Brahms’ First Symphony.

To be honest with you, I don’t really care where you get your chicken sandwich. The thing that interests me the most about the whole Chick-fil-A, marriage equality discussion is wrapped up in the phrase, “the biblical model of marriage.” It interests me because there are assumptions being made about a “biblical model” that simply does not hold water. The Bible does not have that much to say about marriage, and a great deal of what is said does not fit the assumptions.

"Hide Away" is the story of a man who moves aboard a decrepit sailboat that is moored in a tiny harbor tucked-away on Lake Michigan’s shore. He’s escaping some sort of tragedy that has driven him to the solitude of this isolated haven and he meets others there with pitiable pasts who help guide him through his lament.

All the pundits are talking about the recent cartoon by the New York Post’s Sean Delonas, showing a chimp shot by two policemen who say, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” The prevailing view among the bloggers and talking-heads is that the cartoon is a racist depiction of Obama as a monkey. Al Sharpton has taken the opportunity to grab the media spotlight by condemning the cartoon. New York Post employees are reportedly “unhappy and ashamed” of the “offensive cartoon.” The media love arguments about race.

Who was this man Francis, the one known as Francis of Assisi?

Sometimes a vegetable perfectly matches its true season, bestowed upon us from plant or earth like a metaphor. After the solemn winter, leeks emerge from the earth, dirt-clad and single-minded.

October 13, 2004

The National Weather Service's local office is describing the temperatures this week as a roller coaster for their down-up-down readings.

NEW YORK - Alicia Keys says she's not a conspiracy theorist. In a statement issued Tuesday, Keys said she was clarifying "comments that were made during my recent Blender magazine interview since they have been misrepresented."

It may not have been a swarm of biblical proportions, but consumers seemed to rally in the face of slumping home values and rising gas prices Friday with an impressive turnout during the year’s most closely watched shopping day.

Two new mosaics at Mesa’s Hale Elementary School represent the creativity and teamwork of students in a project that incorporates learning and fun.