Saturday 2015-12-05 14:40. Actually, Leo arrived first. But he got turned away. I left church at 13:40, and got to the bus stop about...

The scientific reason your world brightens up when you do This study affirms some common observations about color perceptions and...

Friday  2015-11-13 I will soon have to find somewhere else to stay at night. And eat, shower, and get clean clothes. As explained in a...

Man Gives Up Drugs And Goes Into Rehab After Hearing Obama Speak Reblogged 2022-09-29 . #Addiction #BarackObama #KeriBlakinger

Psalm 150:6:  “Let all things that have breath praise the Lord.” At the homeless shelter where I stay, we’re required to attend chapel...

At least, not for people like me. [*] Ashley Olsen Grace Park Ciara Decisions, decisions. Last Sunday, I faced emotional blocks such...

A few days ago, in the “smoke pit” awaiting entry to the homeless shelter where I stay, I sat facing a choice of whether to feel good or...

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning I am very excited about this. This is, as far as I know, the first study to...

Grateful as I am for air conditioning, Baltimore’s current heat wave brought this post to mind, and it may be good to re-blog it just...

As of Monday, 04/27/15, let me say this.  We had five days of completely orderly demonstrations.  Only after that did the interlopers...

In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove...

Friday  2015-03-27 Yesterday in shower I decided to think about things I’d like to have happen.  I settled on dreaming of having a cat: a...

Originally posted in July 2005 at Messiah Truth ; reblogged here 2021-03-11 : Religiosity can express any of various impulses, including...

In a blog post of July 19, 2014, I declared my ambition to become  th e “Nemesis of the morning glories” in the garden out behind my...

From a 03/31/08 e-mail to my supervisor at the dollar store. This was a young man who had never had a paying job before, and thus...

In the January 13, 2015 Washington Post, Valerie Strauss calls attention to an obscure Supreme Co urt case that s he says may have a...

John 9:1-3: 1As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,...

I don’t like Elder Conrad. At the shelter, they compel us to attend chapel every night. A different group presents each night, following...

Guides to Straight Thinking , by Stuart Chase Life is difficult. At this writing, I notice that perhaps a dozen times a day I encounter...

‘Acting White’ Against the notion that blacks victimize themselves by “acting black,” Princeton undergraduate Kristen Coke complains that...