When I was 69

On Thursday July 27 the NC Energy Commission will hear citizens (and probably lawyers) in Asheville at 7:00 at the Buncombe County Court Hou...

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business ...

  Shared by one of my athletic granddaughters...try to keep up! Painting : 'Mary Magdalene' by Cassandra Barney  I must mention that...

Just a short memorial to a dear friend. When the people at church said they were having a gathering to remember her the day after she died, ...

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ....

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? -Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)  This was the la...

"It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has...

  The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle, writer (29 Nov ...