City considers crackdown on panhandling Baltimore has another fit of panhandler anxiety For years, I had the mantra: “Most panhandlers...

(Originally published 09/18/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions. ) Romney: Obama voters ‘believe they are victims’ First, let me say I...

(Originally published 10/17/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions .) Democrats: Political slant marks Romney tax return Without in any way...

Malala, survivor of Taliban, resented in Pakistan hometown Malala Yousafzai’s friends wounded in Taliban attack continue education Malala...

(Transcribed from a letter to my mother dated 25 September 2007.) Thi s conversation yesterday with a co-worker astonished me. “Peaches”...

Having several interviews in quick succession has raised my hopes and made my dreams more vivid. I can hardly wait to become a taxpayer...

(Transcribed from an e-mail I sent my mother 24 August 2010.) Jesus said any number of things in large part, at least, for shock value....

Matthew 25: 14 “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15to one he gave five...

A lot of them are just like me: college graduates who have had professional careers, and then given issues in the job market and/or...

The Marshmallow Study Revisited For the past four decades, the “marshmallow test” has served as a classic experimental measure of...

Yesterday at noon I had an interview for a Program Assistant position at a medical professional society downtown. This is straightforward...

Yesterday I researched expungement in Maryland. My conviction was in mid-October 2010, and I’d understood one could get a misdemeanor...

EEOC sues over criminal background checks This affects me. In August ’10 I became the first member of my family in three generations ever...

In the current government shutdown, and the campaign to defund Obamacare, it certainly sounds that way to me. #Shutdown #Radiotalkshow...

I’m angry. I don’t usually talk this way. But for better or worse, for the moment, I will. I don’t know the numbers, and I’d welcome if...

Thanks to the reader who sent me this link: Poor people aren’t stupid; bad decisions are from being overwhelmed, study finds I am...

Video: Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in East Baltimore Link to it early and often throughout the day! My first audition...

Here comes the spoils society Don’t let that odd title put you off. I think this op-ed by Robert J. Samuelson is pretty important. The...

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of...

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of...