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SCOTT DREYER: Conduct Your “Year In Review”

James Clear, in his award-winning book Atomic Habits, encourages his readers to conduct an annual “Year in Review.”  There is nothing magical about the date January 1; personal growth and...

FRED FIRST: Small Moments. Long Life

Images: In our eyes. On our minds. From our memories. Conjured in our dreams. Right...

BOB BROWN: Decoding the New “Structure of Feeling”

This is the time to marshal up hope for the New Year. Hope is wanting...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people....

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

Lenten Living by Joe Lehman

Devotion, faithfulness, duty,  and love.  These virtues bring people do the strangest things.  Because of them, firefighters go into burning buildings and forests,...

More Than Choirs Come Together

by Frances Stebbins Fifty years ago, maybe even twenty, such an event could hardly have happened in traditional Salem, but at the end of...

A Nonagenarian Remembers …

by Mary Jo Shannon In October I discovered that Raleigh Court Presbyterian church had over 30 members aged ninety or above. Our Writers Group...

In The Dream Factory, One Story Had A Sad Ending

byMike Keeler The Kodak Theater in Los Angeles was built with the express purpose of hosting the world's most noteworthy movie and TV celebrations....

I Have A Hang-Up

by Robert Adcox Each of us is often tasked with doing business over the phone. Whether enrolling for college courses, enquiring about layaway policies,...

Receiving The Greatest Gift by Tupper Garden

We walk through this life, many of us, perhaps all of us in a way, wounded.  Whether imagined or real, we all feel...