Each day seems to bring darker and darker news from all over the world. Shirley Jackson recognized that in such bad times we must try to be a little nicer to those around us. They too are under the cloud of despair that is engulfing our planet, so let us try to let others in our lives know that there is some good left in humanity.
With the astronauts still days away from reaching the moon, we are already getting fantastic pictures of our home planet. As with every picture of the Earth from space, we see what a fragile, interconnected planet we are living on. Yet, in our short-sighted and selfish actions we are killing
"Reporters are heroes of our time", for without them we would not know truth and without truth there is no informed democracy. Reading about Shelly Kittleson is a humbling experience as we realize just how much some of our fellow humans are willing to risk to keep us
In his book, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the feelings of a character who is going out in public for the first time, dressed as a woman. He writes, "He felt uninhibited and beautiful and lovable and suddenly free". These are feelings we should want all
I understand where Virginia Woolf was coming from when she wrote that "Good books are desirable..., even if [the authors] show every variety of depravity". I have no doubt that every single author I quote has some aspects of their character that I would reject in real life