How to Connect with Your Teenager
I’m not a fan of reality TV, but I’ve found one show that (surprisingly) I’m addicted to. Mrs. Eastwood And Company has tickled my funny bone. Maybe it’s the fact that, all too often, I can identify...
View ArticleThe Colorado Movie Shootings: We’ll Never Understand Why
James Eagan Holmes, the Colorado movie theater shooter, is today’s water cooler fodder around the country, if not the world. With no online presence and described as a “shy guy… a loner,” this...
View ArticleThe Key to Happiness: Running with the Bulls
How many people are guilty of ruining a beautiful day because they choose to let worry or past memories trouble them? I know I am. Take yesterday, for example: Instead of grabbing a beach blanket,...
View ArticleSudanese Runner Guor Marial, a Champion of Resiliency
Guor Marial, the young man dubbed in this year’s Olympic Games the “runner without a country,” is competing in the men’s marathon under the Olympic flag instead of the South Sudanese flag because, with...
View ArticleThe Return of “Jaws”: Did He Ever Leave?
It was 1974. I remember touring Martha’s Vineyard with my family in a beach buggy and one of the stops was to see a mechanical shark being filmed in a movie to be released the following year. I...
View ArticleBook Review: The Messiah Matrix by Kenneth John Atchity
Kenneth John Atchity, Ph.D. is brilliant. His new novel, The Messiah Matrix, is a compelling story that may challenge readers to view religion differently. Ken Atchity, a Classical scholar,...
View ArticleBoston’s Neighborhood House Charter School: One Student Short
The Internet has been flooded with articles covering the Boston Marathon bombing, the suspect’s capture, how the Boston area is recovering, the victims, their families, and the local heroes, but I...
View ArticleBook Review: Jessica Thom’s Welcome To Biscuit Land
Welcome To Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero (Souvenir Press, 2013) is Jessica Thom’s personal story. Written in a diary style format, the reader becomes a “fly on the wall”, traveling...
View ArticleBook Review: Killer Dads – by Mary Papenfuss
It’s a disturbing topic; incomprehensible but fascinating to most of us. How could anyone murder, especially a loved one? Mary Papenfuss explores the topic of fathers killing their children in Killer...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Rico: How Politicians, Prosecutors And The Mob Destroyed One Of...
It’s an incredible story with an intriguing cast of characters, and the plot screams to be read. This book has the potential to become another great Hollywood movie about a hero-done-wrong, the mob and...
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