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How to be Unforgettable

November 10th, 2009

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the Angels. ~ ...

The Song of Liberty’s Muse

October 28th, 2009

It was a cool morning on board the U. S. S. Madonna, the quiet of the day broken by the revving tug ...

A Welcoming Nature

October 23rd, 2009

Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as ...

A Return to True Beauty

October 20th, 2009

In thousands of beauty pageants across America, she stands there, an aura around her as she tries with all of her might ...

How Not to Be a Grouch

October 15th, 2009

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway Simon Cowell. Dick Cheney. Walter Matthau. Oscar ...

Salem's Bad Rye and Eye of Newt

October 12th, 2009

It was a cold, hard, bitter Winter in 1692.  Many of the tiny lonesome towns along the Eastern seaboard had spent the ...
"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned." -- Thomas Jefferson There is a profound difference between the ...

Globalism and Gratitude

September 21st, 2009

Today is World Gratitude Day.  This World holiday began in 1965, put in place after a meeting of members of the United ...

Embracing the Stranger

September 11th, 2009

The day was September 15, 2001, just four days after we held each other in front of our televisions, watching our combined ...

The Michtoms and their Teddy Bear

September 9th, 2009

Prior to the introduction of Teddy Bears into American society, bears were symbols of strength and ferocity, perhaps because America was not ...