“I felt very much the outcast. I was poor Hispanic gay and HIV positive” Ruben Bailey confesses in In the Course of a Dream: Emanuel for Love. He wears his oppressive background sexual orientation and affliction like a stigmata. Like... Read More

"Tipping Guide for Gratuitous Folks" goes a long way toward meeting its goal of helping readers develop a “tipping persona.” Whether generous or stingy each tipping decision should be based on reason but is often spur-of-the moment... Read More

“Many religions can be valid paths to spirituality Christianity just happens to be the one that I have gotten to know the best have chosen as my personal path and feel most qualified to discuss” Thomas Beardshall informs readers in... Read More

“In this crisis and on TV you just need to look more hard-working…ROLL UP THE SLEEVES!“ —E-mail from Sharon Worthy to FEMA Director Michael Brown (September 3 2005) Perhaps no other individual has more information on the historic... Read More

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. —Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” from Leaves of Grass (1892) This reverence of grace in the twilight... Read More

There’s no reason to become alarmed and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? —Airplane! [the movie] (1980) "Rough Air Ahead" is the forecast for would-be... Read More

If you be brave and try just once / I’ll fly right next to you. The reassurance of a mommy bird is the key to confidence as the time for first flight arrives. In a tree within sight of a mountain she coaches and models the steps for... Read More

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow... Read More