Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Could There Be a Monster in Your House?
“Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.”
–Condoleeza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and current director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution
We’re living in a pandemic. No, not a viral pandemic. Actually, something more sinister–the pandemic of human trafficking. No less a person than Pope Francis has aptly referred to it as a “scourge.”
Human trafficking is defined as a crime in which victims are exploited and traffickers profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Could There Be a Monster in Your House?
“Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.”
–Condoleeza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and current director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution
We’re living in a pandemic. No, not a viral pandemic. Actually, something more sinister–the pandemic of human trafficking. No less a person than Pope Francis has aptly referred to it as a “scourge.”
Human trafficking is defined as a crime in which victims are exploited and traffickers profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]