One week from today, November 8, 2022, the results of a mid-term election are likely to say what direction the United States is heading in the near future. One week from today, this day being November 1. Seven days. Reports suggest a significant increase in early voting and we won’t really know what that means
There are many kinds of middles as well as middling. We often think of middle as that which is in between one end and the other. We have the middle child, we are almost at the mid-term elections, halfway through the four-year term of a President and a mid-life crisis happens somewhere between ages 40
We come to know ourselves better over time, or that is a possibility, based on whether or not we have chosen to invest some of our time in responding to the maxim Know Thyself. That well-known imperative is inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Deplhi and was often cited by Socrates
This is not quite like the Jerry Seinfeld piece on Raisinets but it’s close and may have inspired me to write this expose. Jerry wondered why it had taken 80 years to put chocolate on raisins. As I was contemplating the cereal aisle at the grocery store, I looked at how many choices we’re exposed
The story starts early (1937) with my parents and their connection to a community of faith in the small town where I was born and spent the first 18 years of my life. The church was called The First Congregational Christian Church. I don’t know why it was called First since there wasn’t a second
When we were kids and played ball on our own, we chose sides. Two of us were designated as captains and then we each chose one at at time for our side until all were on two opposing sides. It seemed to us to be a fair way to build a team and compete, all
