IS BEING HEALTHY A CIVIC RIGHT?
By Michael Strelcheck There are many ideological differences in our society today, and one of the biggest and most troubling is the question of “health care”…
Age of Aquarius or the Age of Woman
By Joel Matthews Ancient Wisdom tells us that the incoming New Age of Aquarius, which actually started in 1962, brings with it a new age of…
An Easter Tale
By Doris Deits Ahhh, the sweet smell of chocolate bunnies, magical jelly beans and the adrenaline rush of the egg hunt…Easter is almost here! Growing up,…
Bodies and Bugs
By Dianne Witte This winter I experienced what I call a major upgrade to my immune system. In other words, the flu hit me. You know…
Who Cares!
By Joel Matthews There has been much talk over the past year about what our Founding Fathers intended for this great nation when they wrote the…
Paradigm Shift: Materialism to Consciousness
By Frank Conerton A paradigm is a set of basic understandings and beliefs which shape our world. We filter all that experience through a paradigm, resulting…
The Thirteen Grandmothers – in the time of women
By Jeanie Johnson Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes in the introduction to her fabulous 1992 best seller, Women Who Run with the Wolves, “There are times when…
Gun Management
By Dale Lucht On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary…
Restroom Rendezvous
By Mary Summerbell This year, once again, Beloit International Film Festival was my beat-the-winter-blues budget cruise. BIFF has become my annual cinematic trip to rejuvenating places.…
Lotus
By Isaac Evenson Ivory crystal yet blankets the ground, Though the new growth has begun. In the coal blackened tomb something stirs, Ripping through chrysalis, yearning…
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