The leading issue of this election season seems to be attacks on American Democracy and its most sacrosanct institutions, including the U.S Constitution. This is a document every educated person my age understands as the Number 1 Guarantor of each...
During Covid-19, I promised to say a rosary every day until we were over the crisis. When the pandemic finally ended, I continued with the daily prayer because it was now a part of my routine. There were days which I forgot and others where I was...
I really do not have a predilection for cats. In fact I am not crazy about most members of the animal kingdom. But there are a few really great metaphoric uses for cats. While I have already written about the Cat and our lost curiosity, this essay...
Many years ago, I was doing a weekly talk show on WGNU radio, a station that prided itself on its diversity of hosts. Two of its most popular hosts were radical blacks. Because of their vitriol, passion and high ratings, they had much more air time...
When I did talk radio years ago, the hosts could add bumper music as an opening for their programs. Over my 22 years at WGNU, I used several popular music themes. My last one was a song from the film, Rocky III, Gonna Fly Now. Yet I think my...
Thanks to Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice-President, Joe Biden, the word normalcy has enjoyed a new currency as politics turns more to semantics to attract voters and additional donors. While the correct noun form of the word...
The sheep and shepherds metaphor is a central one in Christianity. It is found in both the Old Testament and the New: “Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, (Isa. 40:11),” “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . ...
The news is filled with the tragic story of Venezuela’s decline from being the most oil-rich country in the world, surpassing Saudi-Arabia’s legendary wealth, to a country with an inflation rate of over 1,370,000 percent, rampant crime, and...
