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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...

Rhetoric is No Substitute for Reality

On January 7, 2015, the satirical newspaper ‘Charlie Hebdo’ was stormed by jihadists in Paris, France. The siege ended at a Jewish kosher supermarket...

The Texas Tavern: Endurance Counts

This past weekend the venerable Texas Tavern celebrated its 85th anniversary. I don’t think any other local eating establishment can match that for continuous...

The Superbug of Fatalism

Vaccines or none, human resistance is going haywire. So it appears from health headlines. Epidemic diseases, morphing superbugs, allergies to everything - eggs, meat,...

The Visit

It was the first day of December last year she came to visit. It was the sixteenth day of February she left… Cemone. Perhaps you...

Federal Budget Proposal: Ruinous or Realistic

President Obama who usually misses required dates set out in a 1921 law to submit a national budget to Congress recently proposed $1 trillion...

Nobody’s Savior

Sometimes you've got to let people fall on their face, scrape their knee, break a few bones, suffer an unrecoverable injury and you not...