Tag: understanding

Jury duty

September 18, 2006 | No comments yet

I was summoned to jury duty today. Oh boy! A favorite job! While waiting at the Justice Center at 8 o’clock this morning for instructions on what to do along with 36 other dutiful citizens, I read a brochure titled,

Drug ads sell disease

August 29, 2006 | No comments yet

Check out an insightful csmonitor.com article on how drug ads sell sickness to promote their products. The article reports that in the effort of pharmaceutical companies to create new disease markets, they’re frightening people into taking more prescriptions than they

Not feeling down

April 13, 2006 | 1 comment

“I was feeling very down and wondering why,” a friend told me this morning. “Then I realized millions of people were lamenting the death of Jesus Christ in preparation for Easter. So I prayed to know their focus on death

The most important things

February 14, 2006 | No comments yet

I talked to an audience of adults about valuing the most important things in life. I asked the question, “When you turn 95 and look back over previous decades, what accomplishments will be most important to you? The money you

Iran’s nuclear ambitions

January 17, 2006 | 1 comment

Iran’s leadership appears determined to develop nuclear capacity that critics say can be used to build atomic bombs. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has publicly voiced hatred and detest toward Israel. Most of us are not in leadership positions to decide appropriate