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Anybody But Bernie Syndrome: Why A Brokered Democratic Convention Is The Party’s Only Hope

As I type this, the South Carolina debate is barely 12 hours old, and even more anxiety has stirred among the Democratic Party establishment. They are worried. The resilience of the Bernie Sanders movement and his supporters is clear. And everyone outside the Sanders circle is growing more in its chorus crying for relief and commonsense to reign. The “Anybody But Bernie!” movement is in full swing. The challenge now rests on what to do about it within the confines of party rules. Let’s step back for a moment and see how we got here. Long before Hillary Clinton sealed her ...

Truth Does Not Change With Time

There is a difference between the truth and our understanding of it. Each individual sees the world based on his or her mental framework, developed over a lifetime and influenced by every experience, relationship, and internal conversation. Our understanding of that world and its people can and must change over time as our experience deepens, but the underlying reality hasn’t, doesn’t, and can’t change. Babylon was a large city with many thousands of people. After 3,700 years, that fact has not changed. Its people fought wars, raised families, ate meals, and otherwise lived their ...

The Tale Of A Two-Fingered Typist

From September 1968 through June 1971, I was a student at Jamestown High School. Back then, JHS was a grade 10-12 school, as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, were junior high schools of grades 7, 8 and 9, and our elementary schools were grades K-6. (I went to St. James Parochial School for grades K through 9 and then moved to JHS, along with about 30 plus others with whom I spent my first 10 years of education growing up.) Anyway, when I got to high school, I was able to take some elective classes to balance out my Regents diploma curriculum, and one of those was typing. Mind you, ...

Birthstones And Flowers Adorn Each Month

Sometimes I am actively looking for something to write about; other times I stumble upon something that tweaks my interest. In either case, I am off and running. The column came from some of my random research. I stumbled on facts about the months of the year. I found many things I did not know so I am going to share with you. My husband bought me a beautiful necklace — a sapphire, my birthstone. While he was looking at jewelry a man asked if he happened to know the birthstone for September. He told him he did since he and his wife (me) both had September birthdays. Once he told ...

America’s Favorite Story

A Springfield, Ohio, man spotted a van — guess what color — that he thought was trying to kidnap a girl, and he ran off to chase it in the most modern of ways: livestreaming the whole thing on Facebook. The van got away, but the man posted the video, which went locally viral. Here we must commend Springfield’s WHIO TV 7 for checking to see if, indeed, there had been any substantiated reports of actual or near-kidnappings. Police lieutenant Lou Turner told reporter Katy Andersen that the cops had received not a single complaint. Let’s hear it for a reality check! The ...

It’s Time To Start Getting Outdoors

Now that spring is right around the corner and the seed and flower catalogs have started to arrive in the mail, it’s time to think about finally getting outdoors. I am sure I am not the only one that loves spring, the season of rebirth. When I walk outside in spring, I know my favorite season has arrived. This is when the flowers start growing and the birds start singing. The air smells fresh, buds appear on trees and the grass starts to grow after their long winter slumber. I think that in winter a good number of people are in some kind of hibernation, I know I am. I go to ...