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We continue to have quite an exciting and busy Thanksgiving week. Dina, arrived last Saturday with her three children: Rylie (age 11),...

My Aunt Maggie used to say that someone in a bad situation probably felt stuck between a rock and a hard place. Perhaps her description...

The Austin American Statesman published an article I recently submitted. I share it below. The Republican Party Succumbed to Trump We...

I fear we have initiated a full-scale adult version of the “pay-back” game. As children, we played this game but with less significant...

When I was a college student, many of us read books and articles by Alan Watts. A quote from Watts claims, “By replacing fear of the...

“As a retired educator, what do you think we should do about school this fall?” our oldest grandson asked. Not a trivial question. In...

Even after we abolish police brutality and the death of minorities, we will still be challenged to consider blatant inconsistencies in...

Frederick Douglass, a freed slave who became an acclaimed writer and a public speaker shared, “If there is no struggle, there is no...

THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY A PARENT. ALTHOUGH IT IS LONG, IT IS WORTH READING ALL THE WAY TO THE END. If you are in the “schools must...

We Live at the Perfect Time From the Unity Spiritual Center, I read, “Let us not forget that we were all born for such a time as this....