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Repentance Means Having to Say You’re Sorry (with apologies to Eric Segal). That adage made its way into my notes as I prepared for today’s post, but, unfortunately, I’m not sure if it’s original with me. If I stole it … Read More
We interrupt my regularly schedule post about doing away with Columbus Day (see this link if you are curious) to bring a celebratory Happy Birthday to two very special grandchildren of mine: Elijah and Isabella. No, my sons … Read More
The world is filled with too much hatred, too much fighting and too much mistrust of others. So reads the opening line from a website called Holiday Insights. They were writing about The International Day of Friendship, July 30, calling it “an … Read More
He was like no one else we had ever known. Brash, beautiful, full of optimism, and, we thought at the time, full of himself. Go on; admit it. When Cassius Clay first appeared on the public stage … Read More
I’m torn. My Follow-Up post, written a few days ago, follows both the Muhammed Ali funeral, which I was privileged to listen to on my drive out, and the Orlando tragedy, which I was spared news coverage of because … Read More
Ramadan began yesterday. … And I realized that except for my years in Kazakhstan where one colleague observed the month-long fast, I don’t know much about this holiday celebrated the world over by 1.6 billion Muslims (7 million of them … Read More
DST: Sunday, March 13, 2016 2:00 am to Sunday, November 6, 2016 You have a choice today. You can read my post on DST from 2015 (which is a rehash of my 2014 DST post) by clicking … Read More
International Women’s Day is a world-wide holiday, officially observed on every continent each year on March 8. Have you heard of it? Or perhaps I should ask instead, when did you first hear of it? … Read More
January 27 is World Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day I found this photo of Auschwitz at the Jewish Virtual Museum, a project of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and a wealth of information on the Holocaust. Today, January 27, is World Holocaust … Read More