Commentary

Friendship has become rare for most today. Remember our childhood? Friendship was as easy as asking, “Do you want to be friends?”

Racism is alive and well in the U.S., creating multiple problems for people no matter what their skin tone.

“We were just standing up there, watching the smoke and the debris and the paper all around us, when suddenly, the second plane hit the World Trade Center. We were stunned. No one said anything. And then, all of a sudden, everyone’s pagers started going off. And that’s when I realized this was a mass casualty event.

What steps should I take to study paganism or Norse paganism and then put what I have studied into action?

What exactly is Rosh Hashanah and how is it celebrated or observed?

I often compared homelessness to a turnstile at a BART station. I was stuck in the turnstile, as its wheels rolled me rapidly around and around. Eventually, I would be spewed out of the turnstile, on one side of the other: either inside or out.

Apparently there are many people who identify themselves as Christians who are very okay with violence being an option when they don’t get their way. I’m gobsmacked — but not shocked anymore.