Even if you don’t agree with her actions, motivation or beliefs, you have to admire Sister Megan Rice for walking her talk. Megan Rice, an 85-year-old Catholic nun, was released after serving two years in prison. Her crime — evading security and throwing human blood and painting peace slogans on the walls of a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, TN.…
Drive left. Look right. Remember turn signals are on the right and wipers on the left. Refill with diesel, not gasoline. Life is a journey. Travel is one way to learn and gain an enlarged perspective, if we allow ourselves to be changed. While English is spoken in Australia and the size of the landmass is comparable to the continental United States,…
John Lennon gets credit for the title of this post. Perhaps you remember that things didn’t end so well for him. M Scott Peck begins the Road Less Travelled with the statement, “Life is difficult.” There is a difference between inconvenient and tragic. The earthquake in Nepal and our neighbor’s murder two weeks ago that left…
While children can be pretty resilient, there are certain circumstances from which recovery is challenging. Two local situations involving children will test the mettle of those involved. These prompted me to think about when intervention is appropriate and when it’s not. In my neighborhood, two children, ages 3 and 5, were discovered outside in their pajamas. A passerby alerted…
Last week, we watched, Fed Up, a 2014 documentary focusing on obesity, particularly in children. After viewing the movie, my husband asked, “Any surprises?” There were two. Here’s the first. I didn’t expect to see a cameo of my West Point classmate, Congressman John Shimkus R-IL. His face flashed by during a segment decrying the nanny state in the US. Without…
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