What the film: FernGully: The Last Rainforest Taught Me About MAGA Escapism – in these turbulent political times I suspect that there are many Americans who, me included, just need a break from all of the negativity. I must admit that the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election hit me hard and in the months … Continue reading
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Is “Flip-Flopping” Always a Bad Thing?
“Flip-Flopping” or Simply an Evolving Point of View? In the world of politics, facing accusations of being a “flip-flopper” is often the kiss of death for a potential candidate. Back in 2000, when then Vice-President Al Gore launched a campaign to be the successor to President Bill Clinton, many believe that Gore’s change of direction … Continue reading
Will I Ever Use This in Real Life?
Although many things in society have changed between the time when I was a middle school and high school student from 1975 to 1981 and today, I suspect there is one area in which older Gen Xers like me and today’s Gen Zs. For generations, students in required history courses have often questioned the need … Continue reading
Do All Lives Really Matter?
For all of Facebook’s virtues and vices, there is one aspect of it which those of us of a certain age probably marvel at more than most. It provides a way to peek into the lives of friends and acquaintances from high school in a way that we otherwise would be unable to do. It … Continue reading
A Kinder Gentler Place
The nation said goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter last week, and as all of the living former Presidents and many of the former Vice-Presidents gathered to pay their respects it was impossible, for those of us old enough to have lived through each of their administrations to make comparisons among them. I was only … Continue reading
Forgetful Gullibility: American’s New Deadly Pandemic
Are you better off now than 4 years ago? Some think that her inability to answer this question to the satisfaction of Trump-supporting Americans is what ultimately cost Kamala Harris the presidency. I don’t believe that she didn’t have a satisfactory answer, but rather that she was being cautious in her rhetoric, as politicians, (except, … Continue reading
Too Much of a Gentleman
Here I am in 1976. I was 13 years old and in the eighth grade. From ages 9 to 12 I had been somewhat vaguely aware of the Watergate scandal, not because it was interesting (the long summer of the Watergate hearings made for very boring television), but because, from the adults all around me, … Continue reading
Always Listen to the “Something Just Said”
A feeling, a “hunch”, the “I don’t know how I know, but I know” sensation that most of us have probably felt at least once in our lives may be one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe. Some may define it formally as “intuition” but in my childhood household my mother always referred … Continue reading
The Power of We
Colossians 3:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV) 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all … Continue reading
The Age of Aquarius – Really?
In 1970, I was seven years old, and a singing group called, (Huey, n.d.), was about the coolest thing that a little black girl from Terre Haute, Indiana could see on television. Back then, it was rare to see non-white Americans on TV (or just about anywhere else for that matter) so when a group … Continue reading
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