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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...

US Voters are Stupid: True or False?

Several news sources are piling onto the revelation of videos of a speech by Jonathon Gruber at an ‘Honors Colloquium’ at the University of...

The Many Ways and Wonders of Friendship

Friendship has been defined as like unto slipping into a comfortable old pair of shoes. As commonly as this wondrous connection may occur, very...

Keep Your Leaves to Save Butterflies, Moths, and Many Other Critters

October is the month in which we might be treated to a colorful show of leaves, courtesy of our deciduous trees. Yet, to most...

A Lesson on Grace, Granddaughters and Butterflies

Whenever possible, I leave work and go play with my 7 year old granddaughter. She is my delight and we have been best buddies...

Some Things Never Change

What does change is the way we hear about them. Newspapers . . . that’s what we call them because they used to give...

Millions of Miles from Darwin

Early this morning (Wednesday, 12 November 2014), we all heard the news that the European Space Agency’s Philae probe landed on a comet hundreds...