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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...

Ask The Nature Lady – Black Rat Snakes

One day I was pulling out some plants that were growing under my Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora). This shrub grows eight to twelve feet...

The Cut of Remorse

It doesn’t take a lot of woods to turn someone into an outdoorsy type. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to have tens of thousands...

Of Canteens and Christmas Truces

There is always a peril which attends the telling of a story one has heard; is it true or counterfeit, partially true yet containing...

A Modern Modest Proposal

In earlier commentaries, I had bemoaned the failure of feminism to bring any degree of civility and restraint into public discourse.  Female activists had...

Rising to Incompetence

Located about an hour’s drive north of San Diego in Riverside County, California, the city of Murrieta is home to more than 100,000 people....

What A Wonder Full World

After a fabulous Fourth, this song by Louis Armstrong popped into my head, and as I looked up the lyrics, I instantly recognized the...