Summer’s winding down. The sun slides further south in the Pennsylvania sky, and the day’s heat starts to dissipate as night settles in earlier and earlier. There’s a lot of…
What happened to doing something nice out of compassion?
I don’t know Dante Whitbeck. Never met him, never interacted with him. I didn’t know his late cousin Anthony Huber, either. I suspect most of the folks across this nation…
Fighting to pass down the right things paid off as a parent
If my obsessive traits were passed on — and we’ve seen some evidence of that with healthy pastimes such as fishing well beyond the norm — being aware of it…
Be careful what you pray for, it may come to fruition
In the Bible, the people of Israel cry out to God for a human king. God tells them no, that they already have a king in Him, and they don’t…
Children are getting the short end of the stick during these turbulent times
There’s lots of confusion, fear and arguing over what to do as the school year approaches. With five weeks to go, public schools are dealing with loud voices yelling the…
Game changers will revolutionize the way you live your life
The mind follows some odd roads some times. I stopped by the cemetery the other day to see if my dear friend Randy Mays’ tombstone had been set in place…
Race is all the rage these days, we need to invest in communities
Black lives matter. They certainly matter to me… my wife of nearly 30 years is black. Our four children, in the parlance of both 1800’s labeling and modern racial thought,…






