Like many people, you probably want to be successful in your life. But how can you be exactly sure that what you have is true success, and not a mere mask of what it means to be successful. Remember, the quest for success has intrigued mankind since the beginning of time. History is littered with […]
Senior Abuse
OUR DISRESPECT OF THE ELDERLY In the new millennium, there is one thing that most folks can agree on when it comes to the mess in our society. We refuse to honor the fifth commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother." Several years back, I was taking a […]
Zimbabwe’s Oppressed Cries Reach God’s Ears?
Zimbabweans are turning en masse to God in search of solace and divine answers in the face of a political and economic fallout that has no apparent resolution in sight. Christianity, which played a key role in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle that ushered independence from British colonial rule in 1980, is increasingly providing a platform for […]
What I would like to tell the Peace Corps.
Why do I want to join the peace corps? I have a number of reasons. As I sit on my inflatable mattress (which I have been sleeping on for almost three months) and look at my perpetual messy room I feel that sleeping on a grass mat in the middle of Zambia can’t that different. […]
“300”: True Tale of Courage
Many people know about the Alamo and the courage those men possessed. There were less than 200 volunteers and they were fighting Santa Anna’s massive army. If that seemed massive picture this; 150,000 or so Persian soldiers against 300 Spartans and their allies. That is the setting for Frank Miller’s (Sin City) […]
A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL
ERIE CANAL VILLAGE…. FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL Just a few miles south of Rome, NY a short steel-railed bridge crosses an anonymous stream. It runs East-West, straight as an arrow, as if nature had played a trick on itself. It did not. Men in fact built […]