To everything There is a season And a time for every purpose under heaven Memorial Day is the season of our mourning. It is the time for us, the living, to remember those, the dead. It is Read more »
- April 22, 2008 -
Earth Day, 2008
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them Albert Einstein On that first Earth Day, 38 years ago, I was a graduate student at The University of Michigan. Six years earlier Rachel Read more »
- January 21, 2008 -
Martin Luther King Day, 2008
“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. Sixty years ago, in 1948, Southern Democrats, led by South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, broke from the Democratic Party because Read more »
- December 25, 2007 -
Holiday Season, 2007
Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward All. In less than two weeks, we, the people, will begin for real the task of selecting our next President. Beginning January 3rd in Iowa and ending ten months later on Read more »
- November 22, 2007 -
Thanksgiving, 2007
If I have seen further than my fellow man it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton I vividly remember what Mr. Welch, my fourth grade teacher, taught us about Thanksgiving. Mr. Welch, the Read more »
- September 17, 2007 -
Constitution Day, 2007
We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves Read more »
- July 4, 2007 -
Independence Day, 2007
E Pluribus Unum From Many, One Two hundred thirty one years ago 56 Patriots pledged their lives, liberties and sacred honor to the vision that we, their descendants, might partake of the blessings of liberty. Twenty-four were Read more »
- May 26, 2007 -
Memorial Day, 2007
How many times must we tell the tale? How many times must we fall? Eric Clapton This week brought two provocative items across my desk. One was a news report of the recent Pew poll showing that Read more »
- January 15, 2007 -
Martin Luther King Day, 2007
“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s been more than 40 years since Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” sermon on the steps Read more »
- December 25, 2006 -
Holiday Season, 2006
Peace on Earth. Good will to all. Christmas Blessing In 1956, nine years into the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower launched a cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union. His goal was to forge a bond of Read more »