Archive for September, 2009

I Believe…

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in acceptance of all people – race, creed, color, ethnicity, lifestyle
that children should be cuddled more than chided
in baking brownies and calling on the new neighbors
that the universe created figs just for me
in the promise of spring on that first warm day in April
that learning is lifelong
that stories about the human condition and the ironic, [...]

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“Courage” - It Doesn’t Have An Expiration Date

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I wrote the following Op-Ed piece in the aftermath of a terrible Tuesday morning eight years ago.  I am grateful that so many newspapers across the country published this piece in the two-week window after that devastating day.
“COURAGE”
“Do you go into the city often?”
I snapped my head up from my newspaper and looked into the [...]

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