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SCOTT DREYER: Conduct Your “Year In Review”

James Clear, in his award-winning book Atomic Habits, encourages his readers to conduct an annual “Year in Review.”  There is nothing magical about the date January 1; personal growth and...

FRED FIRST: Small Moments. Long Life

Images: In our eyes. On our minds. From our memories. Conjured in our dreams. Right...

BOB BROWN: Decoding the New “Structure of Feeling”

This is the time to marshal up hope for the New Year. Hope is wanting...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people....

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

STUART REVERCOMB: Humility Builds The World’s Finest Guitar

Maybe you’ve heard of him and maybe you haven’t, but Wayne Henderson is an extraordinary lesson in the living out of humility. Plain. And. Simple. Henderson...

DICK BAYNTON: Déjà Vu All Over Again

The Olympic Games have been staged every four years since 1896. Beginning in Athens, Greece, the first competition featured participation by 14 nations; the...

MIKE KEELER: Asa Hunt House Update Part Nine

"You from Jersey? Yeah? What exit?" Or perhaps we should ask, "Yeah? Which province?" On July 1, 1676, four greedy men named Penn, Lawrie, Lucas...

STUART REVERCOMB: The Malaise Thickens

Watching the arrival of the New Year on TV was interesting. Let’s just say that most of what we witnessed didn’t have a thing...

DICK BAYNTON: David Wiley’s Great Gift of Music

The greatest gift of ‘humankind’ is the birth of a child. Even though those who are agnostic or atheist and don’t believe in God...

H. BRUCE RINKER: The Politics of Paranoia

I am the son of a long-line of Virginia farmers and hunters who believe that our children should be taught the proper use of...