Articles For Heart Mind Soul

Letter to the Editor, It’s Christmas-time in the neighborhood It’s Christmas Eve and the neighborhood is aglow with strings of ice-colored lights meticulously wrapped around the tree trunks.  It is a shimmering illumination giving the landscape the feel of a wintery-wonderland. Outside my home is the Christmas Nativity Scene; Baby Jesus in a manger and Mary and Joseph standing statuesquely, on each side of Him. As the church bells chime in unison at the stroke of midnight, the holiday decorations all around the neighborhood miraculously come to life. The Three Magi, come before The Newborn King, offering their finest gifts from the Orient, of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The shepherds, along with the sheep they herd day-and-night, softly and silently approach, being curious to take a peek and see the Newborn Baby. An angelic vision told them to come and see the most wonderful and miraculous event that would forever change the world ...

Letter to the Editor, Never mind! As comedian Gilda Radner, playing Emily Litella, would famously say in her Editorial Reply on the news segment of Saturday Night Live (SNL) when she was gently corrected for her innocent and inadvertent misinterpretations: “Oh, that’s different. Never mind!”  Two news organizations: Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reuters briefly posted a report that a United Nations study found that the United States had “the world’s highest rate of children in detention”.  Well of course; this would definitely add irrefutable credence that President Trump was indeed a hideous, horrible, child-caging monster for having detained so many little children at the US-Mexico border. Faster-than-a-speeding-bullet the news story was zapped. Why you may ask was such a news-worthy story so suddenly deleted and demolished, never to be seen or heard about again? Well, as it so inconveniently turns out the United Nations data was fro...

Letter to the Editor, More scandalous than a soap opera Got your attention! Thought so!  This is a real-life-story you probably haven’t heard much about, if any. A DNA test confirmed that this middle-aged man from a powerful political family fathered a baby with a young woman in college, despite his previously repeated denials to this fact. This man fathered the child while he was still legally married to his wife of 22 years and had three children with, and during this time he was also dating his late brother’s widow and the mother of his niece and nephew. His older brother, the shining star in the family, had sadly died of brain cancer. This man’s wife accused him of having “created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests, including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations, while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills.” His wife and ch...