Cognitive dissonance is the general topic in this blog, a favorite concept of mine. I have spent a lifetime reducing discomfort caused by dissonance, partly because I was raised in an Army family. My five siblings and I moved with our parents to a new post every two or three years: -Bamburg, Germany -Sendai, Japan -Columbus, Georgia -Seoul, Korea -Faribault, Minnesota (where my father retired and I attended St. Olaf College) The kind of upheaval an Army brat experiences is no