“There is a child in everyone of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.”

–Robert Brault

Since today’s Halloween, I couldn’t resist writing a post on this most hallowed of secular celebrations.

If “Scrooge” is the term for someone who doesn’t like Christmas, and that person’s response is, “Bah, Humbug,” what are the words for someone who doesn’t like Halloween? “Screech” and “Boo, Humbug?”

If so, full disclosure–I’m a Screech. After thirty-five years of handling post-Halloween tummy aches and […]

“In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important and some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.”

–James E. Faust

If you’ve doubted what all the fuss is about securing our nation’s borders, just ask Israel. It’s reported that Hamas cut through the security fences at the […]

“Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.”

–Prem Prakash

If you’re carefully listening, watching, and reading about our country these days, you’d think “America” might start:

My country ’tis of Me;

Give Me My liberty;

Of Me I sing.

Seriously, we have become a more selfish society. Self-centered. Egocentric. Self-righteous. Have you noticed? What I want is what’s most important. Don’t tell me what you want, please.

Maybe it started with Thomas Harris’s […]

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

–Albert Einstein

I thought I was finished opining on Covid or, more accurately, our national response to it. Not because I thought it would disappear–it never will (think influenza virus)–but because we’ve learned so much and we would modulate our response to any future threat … and yet, here we are.

The latest iteration of the virus has imposed itself on us, and some of the folks […]