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RANDY HUFF: Strolling Stones and A Better Way

The stroll I often took in my growing up years recently came to mind. We lived in Ulysses, a farming and light industrial town in far Southwest Kansas. Our...

BOB BROWN: My Mother’s Bed

Prowling memories creep into my awareness. Intuitively, these memory fragments seem significant but they remain...

SCOT BELLAVIA: They’re Not Dumb, They’re Nonverbal

They say if you’ve met one person with autism…then you’ve met one person with autism....

RANDY HUFF: You Don’t Know What’s There Until You Do

I am reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek this year, the 50th year of its publishing....

FRED FIRST: Turning Points of Note From a Season of Change

First night: Middle of April: The sliding doors are open with nothing but the screens to...

Shame On Me

Shame on me. When we look at ourselves in the mirror, do we see our reflection or our shame looking back at us? Is it...

Shoveling Smoke

When horror abounds as it has these past few days in Paris, the emotional reactions are many. First and undeniably present is the feeling...

The Eviction of The Almighty

EVICTION NOTICE TO: God, also known as ‘Heavenly Father’; ‘Creator’; ‘Intelligent Designer’, ‘Father Figure of the Trinity’; other aliases and DBA notwithstanding. FROM: Supreme Court of the...

Horrendus Foedero Habenae

Millions of people worldwide were affected by the economic disintegration that began in 2008 that was ignited by millions of securitized mortgages that were...

Not As It Should Be

FIRST READING JOB 1:1, 2:1-10 / GOSPEL MARK 10:2-16 Our Old Testament scripture today gives us this VERY interesting interaction and conversation between God and Satan...

In Search of Legacy

Our President keeps trying to create ‘legacy legislation’ that will validate his regal presidency; at least two of them are turning out to be...