I see cell phones everywhere.
It seems that everyone owns them, and not just in case of an emergency. Kids, parents, even grandparents are using them. They talk in the car. They talk walking into the store. They talk on the toilet. I see groups of people sitting in restaurants, in coffee shops together, each of them on the phone. We communicate and have the ability to communicate more often and easier than ever before.
What is the point of talking to another person, whether it is on the phone …

By James C Nelson
On October 12, 1915 President Theodore Roosevelt spoke these words, “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as anyone else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it …

By Elsa Schieder
I woke up this morning with the words, don’t bite off more than you can chew, going through my head. But my dreams do, over and over, bite off way more than that. And I get pulled along. Lots of work, obstacles, learning. I’m not a quitter, but I’ve let go, time and again, only to come back and try again.
My question to you: how do you get along (or not) with your dreams? I’d love to hear.
In this case, I think the words came this morning because …

By Craig Harper
Recently on a current affairs television program here in Melbourne there was a story exploring the concept of children not receiving ‘traditional’ school report cards and not being graded (marked) on their school work at all.
The key message of the program was that evaluating our kids and actually scoring them on their work and exams might set them up for some kind of long-term emotional pain or short-term social judgement and ridicule from their peers.
Apparently the traditional concept of report cards might do some kind of damage and …