Now I don’t claim to be really well versed in what needs to happen next in the country.  I don’t know how we’re going to resolve all those mega-gig overdraft issues with banks.  I don’t know what we’re going to do with all those houses that are in foreclosure and I haven’t the slightest idea as to how to get…
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I had to go back to the island. I wasn’t sure I should go. After all, I had been doing okay since I returned stateside. I’d re-entered civilian life, gotten back into the rhythms of new routines. But it was their faces that I couldn’t get out of my mind as I went about my daily routines. Their faces would…
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I gathered my students to watch the news coverage of the Inauguration of our 44th president. It was striking again to watch the peaceful exchange of the office, the history, pageantry, the traditions and the new energy. To see so many Americans lining the Mall, to see the faces of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, to see my…
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Whether you voted for him, voted for his opponent, were thrilled at his victory or concerned with his election, today we welcome a new president in our country. Today we as Americans watch again an amazing transition, the highest office in our government peaceably and willingly handed over as the march of democracy ambles on. Today, we watch Barack Obama…
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg My children developed a passion a couple of years ago. It was deep. It was pervasive. It was puppy love. Literally. They desperately, desperately, desperately wanted a puppy. They begged, pleaded and promised. They wept, researched and bargained….
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