“I think the most important quality in a birdwatcher is a willingness to stand quietly and see what comes. Our everyday lives obscure a...

Just in case anyone may not be aware, September is National Recovery Month. As this link explains , National Recovery month was first...

“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if...

Recently, I reflected on the summer of 1985, which was 40 years ago. I was twenty and it was a difficult summer for me. At the time, I...

“ Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom,...

I recently ran across a reference to the high walker between the World Trade Center towers, and event I recall from my childhood. Fifty...

89 years ago today, Adolf Hitler opened up the 1936 Summer Olympics. Even people who do not follow history have seen photos of the...

A few weeks back, I became a member of a rather distinct and unique club, I reached my fifty-gallon goal for blood donation. It was a...

John Lewis, young mentee of Martin Luther King, veteran nonviolent activist of the Freedom Rides and other actions vital to the civil...

Recently, I was reflecting on my first summer in recovery. I just turned 22 and I had nine months in recovery. I actually got my yellow...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...

Handshake Across the High Water Mark of the Civil War, Gettysburg PA Recently, I had the opportunity to ride my bike through the...

It is mid-June. The origins of the name of the month comes from the Latin, “Juno" and is associated with the Roman goddess Juno, who was...

“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on...

This post is titled what a colleague said to me when I was going through a rough patch over a decade ago. The advice came with a...