My Master's thesis is dubbed simply "Phil." I remain Phil to everyone who knows me from my wife to the troubled kids we work with. My sons call me Dad yet I am a Doctor of Human Behavior and Educational Leadership and a serious student of the inextricable connection between education and psychology. I write with the common touch, with the authentic lexicon of language used by people speaking to one another in the plain profane political vernacular. The language of my imperfect life is filled with the language of a life lived full out. I continue to work and write to improve the plight of our A...