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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...

Here’s How World Markets Get Destabilized

It starts with a product that is, well, the only way to put it is...addicting. During World War 2, an Italian confectionary company was...

The Spouses Bluebird Project

There is, in my own thinking anyway, a distinction to be drawn between a chore and a project. A chore is done with some...

This Little Light of Ours

Some wonderful bad news is emerging. The kind that easily converts to good news. A powerful toxin is now sprawling across land, water and sky....

Lincoln’s Words; Hallowed but Now Hollow

Most people would agree that the Gettysburg address was one of the most powerful and memorable speeches ever made by a government leader. The...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The title of this critically acclaimed novel by Zora Neale Hurston came to mind yesterday, seemingly out of the blue. In my relatively subconscious...

On Dogs and Devotion

Sabrina and I heard of a Black Labrador noted to be sitting by a mailbox. He did not belong to the family who resided...