Yet another tragic event (this time in Kyoto, Japan) and people are twitching their twitter fingers with “Pray for them.” […]


Yet another tragic event (this time in Kyoto, Japan) and people are twitching their twitter fingers with “Pray for them.” […]

Paine in space? Not quite. But these powerful words from the first Latino NASA astronaut, Franklin Chang Diaz sound like Tom’s […]

Maybe it’s all the water … the rains and floods … that got me thinking about this again. Here’s a […]

Images of Freedom, not all the typical ones, from Philadelphia.

Somehow 50 years have gone by since the Moon Landing. A truly amazing event in human history. Now it seems […]

Motto: “a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals guiding an individual, family, or institution.” ORIGIN: […]

Some neighbors are “celebrating” July 4th with small bombs and gunshots. Others are flying enough flags to wrap the Statue […]

You may have heard of this story of a pregnant black woman in Alabama who was shot, her fetus died, […]

“Eleven and a Half Steps to Enlightenment” Does that title catch your attention? Disclaimer: this essay will not provide the […]

Time to re-set our compass “Something strange is happening.” So says a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England. […]

My dear wife and I visited a friend in Philadelphia–that Capital of Liberty– who told us they joined in the […]

Shocking! Impossible! How could there be Anything greater than Faith?! More evidence that even the “best believers” don’t really read […]