“Why do we travel?” It’s an age-old question, one that faces all of us at one time or another. Some of us travel far; others merely to the next village, but we all travel somewhere, at some time in our lives. And, what we see...

A simple formula of introducing a song, the rest of the story, the QR code, and the song. Simple and also effective in bringing interesting information about some of the songs we know, and many we have never heard. That’s the beauty of Tom Locke’s...

Send Down the Master in Person: Reflections on Adolf Eichmann by A. Keith Carreiro begins with the author's exquisite poem about "The Greatest Generation" or World War II era soldiers, families, victims, and others living and dying in the shadow of the Holocaust and Adolf...

“Woman is a glorious possibility, the youngest-born of God’s creatures, the Benjamin of life, the future of the world is hers.” Those profound words, written by Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1882, hold true even to this day and beyond as women continue to carve their...

The founding fathers of the world’s most powerful nation − the United States of America − were both objective and precise about the form of government and its workings when they drafted the American constitution. They intended that a representative government would control the state,...

“They associate, infiltrate, befriend their target, and covertly gather evidence for a future day of reckoning,” writes author Mark Dickens with Stephen Bentley with respect to undercover police officers. “The Troubles” cut a swathe of human misery through Northern Ireland for nearly four decades(the 1960s-1998)....

Following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, 17-year-old Ronald Schulz chose to leave home, establish a commune in Chicago, and join the Yippee revolution. Thus began his road trip, in which he encountered a variety of characters, including a sexually unsatisfied deacon, homosexual guys who gave...

Bette could never do anything right in her father's eyes. Her father, Jake West, wanted a son. Jake never missed an opportunity to tell her she was good for nothing. Bette had very low self-esteem and started hating women. Jake was abused when he was...

True Ghost Stories and Hauntings by Barb Shadow is an otherworldly experience. Being the co-founder of the Sullivan Paranormal Society, she has a vast well of knowledge of the subject. This book has hundreds of accounts from eyewitnesses and their brush with the paranormal. We...

A national anthem is a song uniting the people of a country as it praises the country and instills pride in its citizens. According to Lilian Ruach, every country has a national anthem. She has years of experience as a child caregiver. As such, she...