Everything old is new again. Is it possible to tell the future by studying the past? One faces the future with one’s past. Pearl S. Buck It’s more so than you would think. It’s just a matter of changing the context with the surrounding culture. Another way of saying the…

Not in words, but short in deeds. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers You hear the word expressed…

Time to get to the root of the problem. — Why has God been at the center of too many human conflicts? Throughout history, God and religion have been at the center of human conflicts. Since early recorded history, it’s absurd. How should something like a religion whose purpose is to promote peace and harmony? What part is missing? We…

The truth, the whole truth, and anything but the truth? Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay You hear many words that say this is the truth. Whose words are you supposed to believe? I misquoted the subheading for a reason. It appears today the people in our society are hearing…

Why choices matter Allowed the freedom of choice is a fundamental right to life. What is life worth without the ability to make your own choices and decisions? Is it not a desire of every human to decide their own destiny? As we age and develop personalities of our own anxiously wait for…

It’s a sad statement when you resort to using tricks for clicks. — If you’re involved with working on the internet, you’re aware of these tricks. I don’t get it, for others, it’s their only way. I’ve been working on improving my writing. In doing so, I found myself publishing articles on Medium and Substack. Not that I feel I’m a good writer…

Are you feeling it too? — You can’t explain it, but something doesn’t feel right. For some of you, it might have started with the Covid virus pandemic. For me, it started on 9/11/2001. There is no denying something going on. It’s not just America, it’s happening all over the world It was a beautiful sunny Indian Summer on a September morning. I woke up to…

Even If Someone Might Read It. — I know I break every rule in the writer’s handbook. Why, I don’t care if nobody reads my writing, I admit it, I’m writing for myself. I just started 3 years ago to take a serious approach to writing. At the later stages of life, now retired. I found myself…

How much are their souls worth? — It has taken a while for the truth to come to light. People are beginning to see the deceit and corruption the public has been exposed to forever from the news media. Since the earliest of times, the media and its many forms throughout history have been a tool. This…