When We’re Gone
What does it mean to be a patriotic American? In the early 1950’s—not long after WWII, federal agents were certain it meant never having anything whatsoever to do with communist … Continue reading
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Time to Care
The first time I was confronted by someone who didn’t believe we should care about others I was in college. I had written a speech about the immense impact of … Continue reading
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What Do You Want?
In the film THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, a female professor (played by Tilda Swinton) tells her genie (played by Idris Elba) she doesn’t want to wish for anything. She … Continue reading
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The Gift of Aging
When I entered my seventies, my body began to betray me with all sorts of unhappy surprises. I took them as a personal affront. My eyesight, my teeth, my hair, … Continue reading
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Moments of Conscience
History is filled with examples of people persecuted for acts of conscience. They aren’t limited to particular nationalities or cultures or genders. They’re simply individuals who feel or felt an … Continue reading
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Great Emotional Expectations
Even though we have trivialized morality lately, we still feel free to judge others harshly according to an unwritten code we keep in our minds. Mostly, the intensity of our … Continue reading
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Love Over Hate
We’ve all seen films in which people with black skin were treated as though they were less than human. We’ve heard the derogatory remarks of so-called white folk who still … Continue reading
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Nourishment of Nature
Facebook is often dotted with expressions of nostalgia for times when we as children played in the wild, catching crawfish or crickets or fireflies, damming tiny streams or gobbling wild … Continue reading
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Should Christmas Be in April?
What if a major disaster destroyed the major holy books of the earth? What would survivors remember to write down again? Odds are, they’d recall bits they thought validated their … Continue reading
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Don’t…Talk…To…Strangers
Aging can be a boon. Young women recognize there’s a permanent open season on pursuing females as sexual targets, regardless of what they’re wearing. We all know, whether or not … Continue reading
