If you are thinking of traveling abroad it would be wise to read the following, or better yet write it down. Your bank account will thank you. The tribal elders have trod these paths before,…
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Has anyone figured out why we are so wealthy but so miserable? When I speak of We I mean us Americans, and when I speak of Wealthy I mean everyone from the bottom to the…
The fall of ‘66 and I was attending Douglass, the women’s college of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, wearing Bass Wejuuns penny loafers, preppy v-neck tennis sweaters and ironing my hair in preparation…
In Christian art across the centuries, angels have been depicted playing musical instruments: harps, trumpets, and organs. But how is it possible for immaterial beings to hold objects of wood, metal, string and wire? Theologians…
Across most of its four-hundred-year history, opera has been predominantly an urban pursuit. It flourished in Italian cities—Florence, Mantua, Venice, Naples—then was exported to the rest of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and…
My dear Trophy of a wife declared we needed to talk, and when she said it her teeth were gritted and her tone was flat. Ominous. I did a quick and guilty fact-check of some…
It was inevitable the day would come I’d be sprinkling handfuls of nickels onto my driveway, yet it’s a melancholy task all the same. How long before a frosting-like layer of dimes will be spread…