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I respect a person who stands up for his or her deepest beliefs, even if I don’t always agree with those beliefs. My respect intensifies if that person is willing to make a personal sacrifice for that conviction without harming … Continue reading →

It was a remarkable day in late September. Every day is remarkable in its own way, but I was touched by something unexpected during my last class of the day. Because it was Friday afternoon and the end of the … Continue reading →

  Chapter 13: Eluding Molly I live in a little gated community of condominiums on a small lake in Pompano Beach, Florida.  I like my neighbors, but I’m having a problem with one of them, a seventy-five-year-old woman named Molly, … Continue reading →

In Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman there are fewer clear-cut values regarding politics and racial issues than in the subsequent book, To Kill a Mockingbird, at least from the viewpoints of Atticus Finch and his brother Jack. Written … Continue reading →

We were born from dust — stardust — yet we have this astounding capacity to stare into the vast universe from whence we came — and search for a place, a world view, to call our own. Even as you … Continue reading →

We live in an age of “instant” communication through iPhones, computers, texting, Tweeting, and Facebook, among other venues. Some people feel the need to be in constant “communication” with the world through cell phones, which they keep attached to their … Continue reading →

Language is one of the main vehicles for our thoughts, passions, and creativity. As soon you think that this doesn’t matter, and you become lazy and unconcerned about how you communicate verbally, your brain already has a flat tire.   John … Continue reading →

What is there about martyrdom that can at once repel, fascinate, inspire, and terrify us? The lives of the Christian saints are templates in suffering for devout causes, generally in their refusing in one way or another to renounce God … Continue reading →

I am what some folks might call a junkie for a television show called House Hunters, a program dealing with people looking for homes to purchase. Part of my fascination is based upon a bewilderment regarding the clients of this … Continue reading →

By the 1990’s, whining had become one of America’s chief pastimes. Even while grocery shopping, I was unceasingly annoyed by the more and more familiar sound of childish whimpering in places like the cereal aisle, where a kid would moan … Continue reading →