Thankful

It’s easy to get bogged down by the daily grind, and for­get to regain per­spec­tive. It’s easy to absorb the neg­a­tiv­ity that abounds and let that define our atti­tude. How­ever, the con­se­quences of such an approach to life can man­i­fest them­selves in the forms of anx­i­ety, worry,...

Michaela Mycroft Winner of International Children’s Peace Prize 2011

Down­load image AMSTERDAM, Novem­ber 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Win­ner is Com­mit­ted to the Rights of Dis­abled Chil­dren in South Africa This after­noon the Inter­na­tional Children’s Peace Prize 2011 was awarded to Michaela Mycroft (17) from South Africa. From the five nom­i­nated...

Support Violence Unsilenced

In the midst of the lat­est chi­canery, misog­yny and crim­i­nal behav­ior that have been sur­fac­ing within the last few weeks, I wanted to make a state­ment lest I lose my mind in silence. I needed to recon­nect with san­ity, and with oth­ers that see the obvi­ous betrayal in these cases...

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for October 30: War of the Worlds

Check out today’s Pro­file Amer­ica fea­ture, put out daily by the U.S. Census: Pro­file Amer­ica — Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 30th.  It may sound like an urban myth — but it really hap­pened.  On this night in 1938, many Amer­i­cans in East­ern cities pan­icked as their radios told them that...

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