Schoolish Thoughts: The Red Frog
“Did you hear what those kids did to that frog?” my daughter asked me. “Yeah.” It happened like this: a boy across the street picked up a toad. The toad made the mistake of peeing on the boy’s hand....
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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes...
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain...
View ArticleFacebook, Neurochemistry, and the Value of Basic Human Kindness
A friend sent me an article about Facebook’s recent clandestine psychological experiment on a group of its participants. Knowing me as he does, he knew I’d want to write about it. Apparently, Facebook,...
View ArticleOn Gun Violence in America
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 Inaugural Address Note: this post started as a response to this gracious and thoughtful blog post by Kim...
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