Category Personal Essay

A Life That Matters

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] How can one life matter – how can my life matter? Many of us have paused during our busy lives to pose this question and others like it. But how… Continue Reading →

Help Wanted

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] There are a lot of “Help Wanted” signs posted around Levittown. For this solidly blue-collar area that we live in, I wondered why. I think the answers may have roots… Continue Reading →

AWAY

How long the night of an uncertain future. With hands clutching the remnants of their past, each stepped onto the tarmac to the mythical beyond. Images of these far away places had only travelled to them on the ether to… Continue Reading →

A Small Life – Revisited

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] This began with a comment from my sister, who said she was thankful for her small life. I’ve written about this before, but the concept has lingered in my thoughts…. Continue Reading →

A Levittown Girl

My world was small when I was eight and yet I did not know it—I thought it so large. Siblings, parents and I started out in a new Levittown just built; We came from Trenton and before that Allentown; before… Continue Reading →

Perspective

Sense of self comes not from the body I inhabit, but from my life experience and how I interpret it.

A Small Life

Leading a small life, a good life, can create ripples that pass beyond the horizon.

When Does Reason Dawn?

The human potential has barely been probed, but the barriers that exist between men have long delayed our development and evolution.

Aspirations

Evolution of man is often in doubt; history is littered with remnants of high ideals buried in the sand.

On Presidential Immunity

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I was surprised to learn that investigation of potential wrongdoing by the President was constrained, not by law, but by a memo. So many people, lawyers, prosecutors, politicians, and pundits… Continue Reading →

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