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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...

Of Tarantulas and Scorpions

Tarantulas and scorpions get a bad rap.  The stuff of nightmares, their Hollywood portrayals are never beneficent.  Everyone knows they are lethal. Tarantulas are large,...

A Rare Opportunity to View a Very Rare Fish— The Atlantic Sturgeon

The Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) is the largest and longest-lived aquatic organism in the Atlantic rivers of North America. In colonial times, sturgeon could...

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Decades ago, ago that was the opening gambit for the panhandler; inflation has upped the ante, but not altered the range of response. What...

The Time Has Come for The Hunter-Gatherer Burka.

The cops had me surrounded. I was lathered in sweat, my hands were stained with a dark liquid, and a yet unidentified substance was...

The Telemarketing Nightmare

When you pick up the phone a chirpy voice announces, “This is an important call about your credit card. There is no problem, but...

Alien Children: Victims of Degenerate Politics

President Obama met for 90 minutes with Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala and Salvador Sánchez Cerén of El...