Night fog swirled as I stood at the top of the ramp in my Pan Am uniform, sporting my jaunty blue hat and ready to greet our passengers. I watched as a familiar scene unfolded below me. I looked down as a four-year-old girl reached...
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Whatever you do, do not miss this great deal on our wonderful book: “Cats, Dogs, and Other Things that Poop in the Yard” which is free on Kindle today! Okay, so I may be biased, but even though I am a contributor, these stories never...
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism … To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change. Van Jones, in The Nation, Volume 287, p. 54 I get in trouble for saying this, of course....
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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and...
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We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. Joel C. Rosenberg If there’s anything we humans excel at, it’s lying to ourselves. We use the evidence of our eyes to convince ourselves that all that bad news can’t really...
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Finally, a debate allowing us to feel what we feel without having to wait until the following night to see if anybody made us feel any better. Spoiler alert; the country's next Democratic presidential candidate was among those top ten.
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Gregory Cheadle, a black man, is leaving the Republican party after 18 years to run for office as an independent. A former Trump supporter, Cheadle now believes Trump has a “white superiority complex” and that the Republican party uses conservative black men like him as...
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The year is 2000. I am still finishing up high school and having a difficult time at home with my parents just like most teenagers. I wanted so desperately to grow up and be on my own, (why do we all think it will be...
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie Once...
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