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Kids just don’t think. They lick shopping cart handles and touch hot stoves, dart into the street without looking and eat Halloween candy without X-raying it first. Kids just have no concept of consequences. Some adults live willy nilly lives, too, not knowing or caring about the penalty of their actions. Others live intentionally. Their […]

Tiger Woods functions on the golf course. You work. The difference between “function” and “work” is gifting, not effort. You could sweat and strain as much as Tiger, but you’ll never beat his score without his God-given finesse on the front nine. It’s a rare gift when your occupation is in your gifting. It’s fulfilling […]

Order in the court. Law and order. Pecking order. Out of order. Marching orders. As much as we feel confined and constricted by order, it does make life somewhat easier to know that the stars are hung in the sky and the earth revolves around the sun in exactly the right arrangement to sustain the […]

You love it or hate it, rail against it or suck up to it. Every single one of us has authority, and we must all also submit to it – or else everything falls apart. What or whom do you have authority over? Certainly, you have authority over your own self. You control your words, […]

Ike hurtled past Havanna and headed into the Gulf of Mexico, where he could become a tempest in a teacup or a Category Five humdinger of a hurricane – it was anybody’s guess. On the heels of Katrina and still leery after Gustav, we decided to play it safe and cancel an upcoming meeting in […]

“Clinton supports McCain,” the headline in my podunk little newspaper proclaimed. Huh? What? How many editor’s and publisher’s did that little “OOPS” slip past? Too add insult to injury, the correction the paper ran the next day began with a typo. If our local paper published corrections for anything other than factual errors; the corrections […]

40-year-old Gloria Nunez has never held a diploma or a job. She lives in subsidized housing and receives disability payments and government assistance. “Depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job,” she relies on food stamps to help with groceries, although NPR reports that she’s having to cut back on ice cream. Certainly Gloria is […]

A serial killer later identified as Ted Bundy is on the loose. The Cold War gets colder while Watergate goes hot and heavy. Oil prices are on the rise in the midst of an embargo. 149 tornadoes are unleashed in a single night, killing 315 people and injuring 5,000. Nixon resigns. In 1974, Ms. Jones […]

By the time you read this, Barack Obama will have announced his running mate for the upcoming presidential election. What’s interesting is the way he’s supposedly going to do it: with a text message to his supporters. Does this seem impersonal and ineffective to you? Think again: the voters who signed up to be the […]

Rounding the corner by the cemetery, my eye was drawn to the monument shop across the street. Never having needed their services, I’ve never paid them much notice. What caught my attention this morning was the smiling, sun-shaped piñata at the counter and the neon sign in the window declaring “Hot Savings on Custom Memorials”. […]