Posts by pwsadmin
The Power of Dissent
‘Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die’. This often-misquoted line comes from the poem/epic story, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennison. It…
Read MoreStill Hungry
As we bask in the glow of our memories of the Thanksgiving weekend and try to figure out what to do with all the leftovers, I would invite all of…
Read MoreThe Salvation Army
I have always admired the faithful presence of the Salvation Army outside of shopping venues; they ring their bells and stand vigil over their red kettles, taking spare change and…
Read MoreBreathe
I have had asthma my whole life, but it didn’t become a serious problem until I got hit in the throat during a softball game in college. I was playing…
Read MoreCultural Hypocrisy
For years I have been joking (or have I?) about starting a class-action lawsuit against any non-Christian entity or person who is using “Christmas” to sell stuff. No more selling…
Read MoreSomething to Unite Around
About a week ago, a group of people dressed in black with red masks (funny how they are afraid to let us know who they are) marched through Columbus, Ohio,…
Read MoreTime Passes Us All
A couple of months ago I wrote about the episode at the Drew University library in which I shocked two twenty-year-old students with the revelation that I had been a…
Read MoreDifferences Make Us Great
Transgender Day of Remembrance services have been taking place since 1998 and have grown to be an international event. I can’t recall the first time one was held in my…
Read MoreHappiness, Part 2
To say that happiness is a choice is mostly true, but not always. I have known a lot of unhappy people in my life, and most of them were feeling…
Read MoreHappiness
I was watching 60 Minutes on Sunday night, and they did this really adorable piece about Bhutan, a small nation in the Himalayas, just to the north of Bangladesh. The…
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