Inner Peace: Peace beckons from beyond the grave
Florida captured a part of my heart during childhood when, as a family, we would drive straight through from Kansas City to Wildwood, Florida, Mom's childhood home. Every summer we would venture that...
View ArticleChristians and Muslims join in peace making
Have you ever watched the DVD series "The Jesus Fatwah: Love Your Muslim Neighbor"? Well, thanks to Carol Custodio, participants of the Lunch & Learn committee were able to see this incredibly...
View ArticleInner Peace: It's not easy to keep peaceful in a political season
Politics! You’ve probably noticed lately that during this presidential election season we are cheering or jeering one candidate or the other. We choose sides and it may seem ridiculous but it looks...
View ArticleInner Peace: My core philosophy? I don't know
“There is no hole in the bottom of the universe out of which you can fall.” I am alive. Someday I will be dead. I am not going to speculate on what happens after I die. I don’t know.If there is a life...
View ArticleInner Peace: Trying to figure everything out? Surrender!
In growing up in our wonderful Western world, we are taught that when we have a problem or challenge to try and figure out a solution and take action to remedy the situation. Our society is built on...
View ArticleInner Peace: Celtic evensong a solace for the soul
Church is not the first place most people go to today to find inner peace. They might go to be inspired by the sermon, a personal witness, or outstanding musical performance, but I seldom hear people...
View ArticleOn Peace Day, Sept. 21, choose an ego-free day
The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is observed annually on Sept. 21. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such...
View ArticleA peace troubadour recalls surviving 9/11
I was in the heart of downtown NYC on the morning of 9/11.Leaving the building I was in at 9:05 a.m., I saw the first building of the World Trade Center on fire. Almost immediately, the second building...
View ArticleInner Peace: Connecting with a dark soul to share inner peace
He was tall, wearing all black with hair to match. I noticed him when I entered the temporary homeless shelter Christmas Eve. The man in black stood motionless, leaning on the doorway entrance from the...
View ArticleAging Happens: It's not easy to unravel long-term care insurance tangle
Here’s a topic that might bore you half to death: long-term care (LTC) insurance. Unless, that is, you or someone you know is in their frailest years and have a need for expensive care. Now it might be...
View ArticleAging Happens: Four tips to help select your successor trustee
It’s great when people have made arrangements for their estate planning by setting up a will or a trust. Most people understand the importance of having these legal documents in place and reviewed with...
View ArticleAging Happens: Say what? Hearing loss could lead to behavior change?
Most people would say that other than being a nuisance, hearing loss is not that big of a deal. Read this data from the American Academy of Audiology (www.audiology.org) and see if it changes your...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Shame at Stanford University
Here we are in 2016. It's been many years since the incidence of sexual violence against women on college campuses has been settled.The consensus figure, based on reporting — and therefore, probably...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: One country, under Glock?
"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.” — Raymond CarverHow does any contributor to a media...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Brexit — a guide for the perplexed
What the heck is the "Brexit", and why should Americans care?Well, we should care for a number of reasons. The Brexit, under a referendum happening in Great Britain as this column is written, is an...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: A season in hell
Last week in this column, the specter of the Brexit (the now infamous departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union) was portrayed as a remote possibility, supported only by a small...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: An epidemic of denial
Another black man was murdered by white police officers early Tuesday, and his name was Alton Sterling. Just as Americans were trying to come to terms with this latest incident of police brutality,...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Failure to launch
My, my, the incredulity of liberals of a certain age when confronted by the peculiar and persistent fact that the kids are still for Bernie.How could it be so? What possible logic is there for such an...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Mein Trumpf
During the past couple of days, I have sat through hour upon hour of speeches at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, so that you, dear reader, didn't have to.I'm trying hard to blame this...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: No sense in Pence
With all the chitchat on the internet and elsewhere regarding the ghoulish hilarity of a possible Trump presidency, one of the ideas consistently making the rounds is the suggestion that Trump is too...
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