Tied Up Today

As soon as I heard that the United States military had bombed Iranian nuclear development sites (on 21-22 June) I decided that I had to use ...

Today in my Beginning Ethics class we are beginning our study of war and peace and terrorism and nonviolence. My tie shows a repeating desig...

Today my younger son Jonathan has his annual birthday! He has a wonderful wife (Courtney) and five equally wonderful children, aged one to t...

The United Nations sponsors the International Day of Peace every 21 September. "The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day dev...

 Today counts as a special day for pacifists (who generally get very little to celebrate among national holidays, etc.). In 1928, the intern...

Happy Birthday to our son(-by-inclusion) David Anderson! David has just earned a new job title at DePaul University (in Chicago): Senior Inv...

Ninety-one years ago on this date, Germany, France and the United States signed an agreement to renounce the use of war forever and to seek ...

Peace be with you! Today's tie was chosen by C. Nolan Huizenga, my eldest nephew, to help celebrate his birthday today. As Nolan says, t...

Happy Birthday, Faith Lang! We've been siblings ever since I married Beth more than 42 years ago. Today we're going to Olive Garden ...

Today marks the 89th anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact , an international agreement (in 1928) to end the use of war to resolve disputes...

Every 21 September is the International Day of Peace, sponsored by the United Nations. It falls during the week of the opening of the UN Gen...

My peace cross tie honors the 81st birthday of the Dalai Lama (14th in that succession). He has been known worldwide as a champion of peace ...

Stand up for peace! Today marks the 87th anniversary of the international agreement called the Kellogg-Briand Pact , forbidding the 62 signa...

My peace cross tie has been worn quite frequently -- now 21 times in almost-7 years -- but I think the message of bringing peace cannot be o...

Let's not have any more wars. Today marks the 86th anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact , which was an international agreement to outl...

Eleven years ago today I stood up for peace, protesting what would soon become America's Second War in Iraq. While we held our signs and...

Some great moments for 14 January in pacifist/peace-making history: In 1784, the US ratified the peace treaty with England, ending the Revol...

Jonathan Albert Kleppinger is 25 years old today! He asked me to wear my "peace cross" tie for this occasion.

My sister Faith Lang selected this tie to help me celebrate her birthday today!

August 27 is the anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand international treaty, signed in 1928, declaring war to be illegal forever.