The public water park is the great leveler, a socio-economic blend that shoves aside common interactive barriers as people strip away formal clothing ...

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An oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew crude, in the aftermath of the tragic April rig explosion that left 11 workers presu...

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As a whole, society appears to struggle when it comes to knowing how to handle and support its geniuses. We’re quick to label them (i.e. problem child...

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“Only he (or she) who is free to be silent has permission to speak.” I can’t recall the origin of this quote, but it is one of my favorites rela...

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At last, a writer has helped me clarify what it means to be a political and religious moderate—as well as why “moderate” isn’t quite as accurate a ter...

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Writing in his classic work Toward a Psychology of Being, the late Abraham Maslow cautioned that the person who ascends to the “self-actualization” ru...

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Sometimes I wonder if I read too much and reflect too little. The reflections I do embrace often flow from some impactful reading material. But I am ...

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Today I am the same age that Bobby Kennedy was when he was shot (a few months after I was born), and the same age that Elvis was when he supposedly di...

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