Another busy weekday morning comes. I rush to get the kids ready for school, reviewing my mental checklist for the day. I feel the pressure to get all my tasks done without making any crucial errors. I pull out of the driveway to head for school with my children finally in the car, panicked from […]
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As a child, I spent most of my summer breaks with my grandparents in Daisy, Arkansas. They owned and tended to a large farm there. I can remember seeing them both work so hard. But they enjoyed every minute of the modest and fulfilling life they had created in the southwest corner of rural Arkansas.
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It’s an ill wind that blows no good. Pandemics are no exception to the aphorism They can and do have positive outcomes. I’m not talking about potential positive outcomes. Some writers are already pontificating about some kumbaya moment when we stop being red state blue state antagonists. I’m also not talking about probable outcomes like
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Critics have been attacking the War on Poverty since President Johnson first addressed it in 1964, and understandably so, to a degree. After all, the issue is far from being adequately resolved because a number of government-funded welfare programs do not give individuals incentives to work. Nevertheless, many states provide child care programs to families living below the national
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There are interesting moral and ethical questions that have been raised by some people, including the president, about death, the corona virus, and the economy. Simply put, the argument is about whether the economic pain caused by trying to slow the spread of the virus is worth the number of lives social distancing might save.
Those with an eye to the future see the world as it could be, not necessarily as it is. I try to keep my goals and visions as free from political motivation and social pressure as I possibly can. There are others like me, similar in nature, in thoughts, in ideals. We are visionaries, innovators,
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