As a mother and grandmother with a doctorate in education and a master’s in counselling Ruth Truman is eminently qualified to write about campus life. The author also has forty years of experience as a United Methodist Church... Read More

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go.” These words epitomize seventeen-year-old Alex Graham. Yet, in her short life, she had a lasting impact on all who came in contact with her. When One Door Closes: A Teen’s Inspiring... Read More

When her doctor asked if the pain in her legs was like pins and needles she replied, “No, it’s more like rubbing against a hot driveway impregnated with broken glass.” Her doctor responded, “Oh right, you’re the poet.” It is... Read More

Throughout literary history some authors write a single book, and they write that book over and over for the remainder of their lives. Walt Whitman, for example, wrote continuously upon his great book of America and democracy, Leaves of... Read More

Rain forests once covered twelve percent of the earth’s surface; now they cover only two percent. Every day, an area the size of New York City is destroyed. Experts predict that this ancient ecosystem will have disappeared by 2025,... Read More

“Nineteen years old, married six months to a dairy farmer, and five months pregnant, I was hiding in a feed room, as a cow was being stabbed with a pitchfork. The blood was running in rivulets down her legs, making puddles around her... Read More

Most westerners that convert to Buddhism find the profound logic and philosophy of the religion great fuel for their faith. That personal salvation and happiness is within one’s own locus of control appeals to the western mind.... Read More

Before Les Quincy disappeared, he was a professional flagpole painter and a sexually profligate sailboat captain. The suspects in his disappearance, all shapely young women, served as his crew and took turns sharing his bed. If this... Read More