They Can’t Come Back

We are a short time here and a long time gone. They Can’t Come Back It’s been many years since the passing of one of America’s most beloved newspaper columnists, Erma Bombeck. Her humor and wisdom entertained and instructed us for decades. One of Erma’s most poignant...

The Source of Evil

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Evil. It’s an intimidating and frightening word. It is so scary that we often resort to less malevolent terminology: wrongdoing, misdeeds, or bad conduct. No...

Five Minutes

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else’s fairy tale.” ? Wale Ayeni I believe that the happiest of people experience today’s newsletter’s “five minutes a day.” What are they? They are the moments in...

BLEMISH OR BEAUTY MARK?

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life In the world of clichés, certainly “the glass is half full (or empty) must at least rank in the Top Ten. But like all clichés, there is a fundamental wisdom within that...

WHAT COMES AFTER THE HONEYMOON?

Fire & Ice Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice....