Editorial by Maramis Choufani
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Many of us can be armchair politicians of a sort as we watch the news and see how there’s yet another flare-up in another part of the world, and we — the United States of America — are in some way involved in the new battle for freedom and/or sovereignty.[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Whether it comes out of the mouth of a beauty pageant contestant, a peacenik, or even a politician, “World Peace,” the concept, is not going away. Ah… but world peace, the reality! That’s another story. World Peace, the reality, takes in the whole “workplace,” the whole world. It is not[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Oh, how we complicate our own lives! On the one hand we have some teenagers in a car enjoying their rap music with their radio turned up very loud; on the other hand, we have a man who was at that same place in time, agitated and annoyed by that[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
There are some things about which we would rather not know. At least, most of us would prefer to not have certain images in our minds, even if we know that there is much violence and gore, or difficult-to-accept events that go on in Nature’s “reality show.” During my “Happy[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Although everyone might not have immediately known his name, we all knew his face. And yes, he was a darned good actor. And like many before him, he died of a — at this time still presumed — heroin overdose… or even an “ordinary” dose of a bad batch of[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Twenty-one years ago, in 1993, Bill Murray starred in a movie called “Groundhog Day.” Whether you like Bill Murray or not, or even if you consider Groundhog Day the most ridiculous day ever to commemorate, this movie has a lot going for it. If I had to use just one[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
We don’t really need a Martin Luther King Jr. to tell us that we need civil rights equality in this country, but we sure can profit from his words and his passion and his dedication, which get resurrected at least once every year. “Now is the time to lift our[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
I had a conversation with someone recently on the subject of personal growth. Now, as usual, I have to state that I am not an expert on anything (as far as I know), yet I would like to believe, based on my own personal observations of my own actions and[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Last week when I wished everyone a happy new year, I went on to tell of the attempted suicide of a friend’s husband, which led me to my point of caring about each other and offering each other a kind word or a moment or two of our time as[...]
Editorials · On a Personal Note
Every now and then as we wish someone a good morning, the person on the receiving end of that greeting will reply, “What’s so good about it?” They grumble the words a bit as if to add emphasis to the underlying unspoken message that could be expressed as, “You have[...]
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