by Carole Duff | Sep 25, 2023 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Here’s a blast from the past story about my personal opinion versus his professional opinion, both generation opinion biased. My boomer generation opinion It was 1991, and I was carpooling two bunheads to after-school ballet class. “Hey Jessica, did the self-esteem...
by Carole Duff | Feb 1, 2021 | Faith, Local or Human Interest |
Followers of Taoism emphasize a healthy balance between opposites, the yin and the yang, darkness and light. With that in mind, today here at Vanaprastha in the aftermath of mid-winter storm Orlena, I offer two stories from mid-summer “storms” from the past. The...
by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2019 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
After devotional, flute practice, and breakfast this morning, I went outside. I’d budgeted thirty minutes for yard work, since I had other chores to do before starting the laundry and writing this post. It’s Monday, and I wanted to get a jump on the day in case our...
by Carole Duff | Feb 6, 2012 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
In a recent issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik published an article about the large prison population in the United States as evidence of the American justice system’s failure. “How did we get here?” Gopnik asked. Referring to The Collapse of American Criminal...
