“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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A service powerhouse
Like many people, after a powerful earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I devoured the news coming from the devastated country. Somewhere in those first days after the quake — I don’t know where — I saw news of this rogue group of veterans who knew they could help and were going to do it, experts be […]
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Learning about writing and myself
When I hit my one year mark for the Great Blog Project, I started re-evaluating what I’ve been doing, particularly my goals with regard to writing. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, although I didn’t have any clear idea where I wanted to go. But slowly, I’m getting a better idea of what I […]
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The problem with writing about your passion
is that you don’t know when to shut up. In my Communities column, I wrote about protecting the natural night sky, particularly what the very excellent organization International Dark-Sky Association is doing to combat light pollution. Being a (very) amateur skywatcher living in an urban area, this is a matter near and dear to my […]
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Taking on mountains
Education is one of the most powerful tools for improving societies. Literate societies are healthier, wealthier, and generally more stable. For girls especially, education reduces early marriage, improves health — including maternal mortality — and provides for a better future not only for them but also for their children. But in some areas, the challenges to […]
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Bittersweet accomplishment
This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans will gather in Washington, DC, for the 40th March for Life. Thousand more will gather through the month in their states and cities for marches, rallies, and prayer vigils remembering the over 56 million children killed by abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The March for […]
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Protection and parental rights
Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious duty, and there is no doubt that the authorities who are charged with that duty have no easy job. But what rights do government authorities have over our children when abuse and neglect aren’t at issue? Today in my Washington Times Communities Pages column, I look […]
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Emphasis on happy
I was reading Dave Barry’s hilarious if depressing Year in Review when I started wondering if anything good happened last year. Because I don’t know about you, but 2013 kinda stunk up the joint as every year in review article has emphasized. So I went on a hunt for some good news so that “Happy New […]
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No peace
Peace on earth. Silent night, all is calm. Tranquility is one of the marks of the Christmas season, but it seems this year there is very little peace on earth. In America, Christians worked ourselves into a frenzy over a magazine interview this Christmas season. Meanwhile, our family around the world goes to Christmas services […]
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Expansive death
Last week, Belgium took steps to expand its euthanasia law to include children. After ten years of legal euthanasia there, the European Institute of Bioethics reported that the various safeguards and limits originally written into the law are routinely ignored. We saw the same thing in The Netherlands, the first country to accept euthanasia in […]
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Good and evil
When the forces of good and evil collide, our tendency is to focus on the evil. I don’t know if it’s our innate sense of justice or just the tendency to rubberneck disaster, but the ugly gets the attention. But when we focus on the ugly to the exclusion of the good, we are denying […]
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