White Supremacy and Insurrection: How Do We End this Stain on Our Society?
Often we imagine the U.S. to be the bastion of democratic notions and faith throughout the world. An exemplar of the concepts of justice…
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Waving the Jesus Flag – A Poem by Julie Clark
For all those Waving a Jesus flag Big shoes to fill Big steps to follow Better get started Developing love Self-sacrificing love Takes a…
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Book Review: My Daughter’s Keeper by Mark Winkler
As a boy I would watch from the window next to our front door as my father slowly turned his car around and drove…
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Change – A Poem by Julie Clark
Thoughts on Change Let us Search for the light Like wise persons Follow it Come out of the blinding Darkness Shake it off Shake…
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Parenting Now: The Importance of Bridging the Generational Divide
Bridging The Generational Divide Over the past few years, we’ve heard the term “millennials” frequently thrown about. Often when we hear it, it’s used…
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Based in Paris: Pizza for Christmas
Turn Toward NOËL Noël, French for Christmas, is derived from the Latin verb nasci, meaning “to be born.” In the book of Ecclesiastes, the birth…
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Thoughts on Covid-19 Holidays with Linda “Peaches” Tavani
My Covid 19 Thanksgiving into Christmas, 2020 I am inspired to share the way I feel during the pandemic with you. About what I…
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Book Review: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a heart-wrenching true story about the author’s (Ishmael Beah) experience as a child soldier….
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The Giver: A Dystopian Classic
It is a common anecdote that the word “utopia” has a twofold meaning: “perfect place” and “no place”. In the definition itself, a utopia…
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Animal Farm: What Does It Teach Us?
Summertime is the perfect opportunity to finally get around to reading those classics you’d always heard about. I had never happened to read Animal Farm…
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Transitions: Country Mouse, City Mouse
When I married Mike in 1983, I moved to Pasadena, California for the first time. Having grown up in the San Gabriel Valley,…
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Five Things I Learned From Kazakhstan
My husband and I moved to Kazakhstan back in 1995 with our two small children, aged 2 and 4 months old. To say it…
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