How I learned Jesus loved kids Every summer, my mom would sign us up for vacation bible school (VBS) programs at a local church so we could experience Jesus. The summer I was seven, my sister and I attended VBS at an all-white church located...
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The aroma is not pleasant when you’re sitting between two boys and a dog. But, for some reason, my mother thought my younger brothers wouldn’t fight if I was in the middle. For two summers in the mid-1960s, my family traveled across the country pulling...
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When I moved to Davis after 5th grade, I didn’t have any friends. My parents were twice divorced and I was an overweight “outsider.” I was the target of jokes and insults on more than one occasion. Physical bullying was minor, but did occur. Davis...
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BY DR. HENRY FRADELLA PH.D. Shortly after the 2016 election, I penned an open letter to my friends and extended family members who voted for Donald Trump that iPinion was kind enough to publish. In it, I explained not only why I was fearful for what...
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Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. Dalai Lama XIV For a long time, just like most of you, oh beloveds, I read about climate change and I was disturbed. But then...
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Yeah. You read it right. He really tweeted that. Keep in mind, Twitter is my least favorite social media venue. The limited space that means that even smart people sound like illiterate adolescents (with all due kudos to the many marvelously literate teens out there),...
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Thanks to lying, cheating, stealing, whoring, race-baiting, colluding, conspiring, disgusting Donald Jagoff Trump; the scumbag dredges of this earth have been given the green light to go ahead and "just be you."
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It’s pathetic watching Donald Trump’s lapdog Rudy Giuliani spouting the nonsense that “collusion isn’t a crime.” Even Trump is trying out the latest excuse for his campaign’s cooperation with Russian agents of influence. But the joke is on them. Collusion is a crime. It’s conspiracy...
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Howdy! Here we are getting ready for our Sunday, August 19th House Concert at 2829 Ganges in Davis. I really hope you can come. The last concert was standing room only, and the music is gonna be even better this time! Kitchen Synch plays the...
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