I Believe in God, But I Hate Religion!
Atheism denies a supreme being exists, whereas agnosticism is playing it safe by neither denying nor fully acknowledging the existence of God.
Same Coin: Just Different Sides!
If you are a parent and live in a state with a book ban and support it, you are a horrible parent. You should be reported to child services for child endangerment and mental abuse. If you are not a parent and live in a state with a book band and support it, you should … Read more
What Got Tucker Fired, Racism, Bigotry, Stupidity? How About Old Fashion Greed?
May you live in interesting times, often cited and attributed to the Chinese. Well, it is an interesting aphorism but not of Chinese origin. In fact, it’s something Neville Chamberlin’s father, Joseph, said in a speech he gave in 1898, “I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never … Read more
Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, Banned In Florida!
I have never seemed to connect with poetry as a form of writing. In conversations with people, they often told me of a poem that impacted their life and how it conveyed significant meaning or comforted them after experiencing a critical emotional event. I tried to embrace the feelings people relayed. I made sporadic attempts … Read more
A Ten-Year-Old is Doing What Grown-Ups Should Be Doing!
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly father.” – Matt 18:10 Why do I care? Care about what? You ask. I answer, Uvalde. Who am I talking to? I realize myself. Why am … Read more
The Faces of The Future!
As I stand here and look upon the thousands of Negro faces, and the thousands of white faces, intermingled like the waters of a river, I see only one face, the face of the future.
Gendron Deserves the Death Penalty. Not Life Without Parole!
The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. — Genesis 4:10–16 On May 14, 2022, eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron left his suburban home … Read more
The Greatest Problems Arise When Greed Is Ignored!
I find December a curious month, not because of the Christmas holiday, but because it is a time for reflection. Something I found myself doing when listening to a news feed talking about the tenth anniversary of Sandy Hook. Ten years have passed since that horrific event. Twenty kindergartners and first graders were slaughtered by … Read more
Grief Paid Me a Visit Today, and For the Moment, I’m Dealing with It.
I can no longer push it into the background and move on to other things, and it won’t let me. Oh, it goes away when I demand it but slitters into the background and grins at me in its malevolent way as I take its whole meaning. I can contain it for the moment, but … Read more
The Agojie Women Warriors Were Real, But the Woman King Is Fictional!
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmmud Freud Movies, what a great experience. Especially if you are watching the film adaptation of one of your favorite novels, you are sitting in front of that giant screen, and the opening credits are rolling with the theme song blaring away. Suddenly the characters you know appear. … Read more