Playing Fast and Loose With the Truth Before It Can Put On Its Shoes

August 11th, 2018

Have you noticed how hard it has been lately to determine the “truth” of things? Perhaps it is some kind of summer madness, but I have noticed an almost daily trickle (drip, drip) of strange and disturbing stories in the local media (including social media). These are centered generally around one public or political figure […]

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No Man, Woman or Child Is an Island

March 12th, 2017

I was inspired to write this little piece by a Mark Twain quote that I posted on my Facebook page: Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. Someone commented that people are still remarkably insular, despite being one big […]

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