“The Hall of Fame is for baseball people. Heaven is for good people.” ~ Journeyman outfielder Jim Dwyer, 1989 An annual rite of winter is upon us and it has once again stirred up controversy, all manmade. Some people know it as the announcement of the latest players to make it to baseball’s Hall of…
For some, coping with the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can seem much like trying to have some semblance of a life while existing in the bowels of Hell. It is this struggle that has forced me and many I know to make many adjustments to re-enter a “normal” civilian life. Crowded…
As a child, like most, I loved Christmas and presents. Even though my mom was poor she always went above and beyond. I remember one year she put a pair of Sasson jeans on lay-away for what seemed like months. When I finally got them I was so happy – but I immediately tore them…
In a recent development in the ongoing debate regarding the mass collection of online data by the NSA, the heads of several major tech companies have written an open letter to the president and congress, urging the U.S. government to, “take the lead and make reforms that ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted…
by Cynthia Cone . I’m married, thirteen and a half years to be exact. Growing up, I never thought much about marriage. My parents separated before I was three and even my grandmother, the woman who helped raise me, was a divorcee. There were no married couples in my immediate family. Both my aunts were…
In this exciting new edition of FWBI we take a look at Deuteronomy 13:6-10! Do you have any friends who are devoutly Christian but are married to a non-believer or someone who practices a different religion? Or perhaps they have a child who decided to strike out on their own path and adopt a faith…
hope ho-p/ noun 1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. “he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information” 2. archaic, a feeling of trust. Today, I tried to have a lighthearted conversation with my friend, Dictionary, and I think I may cry. My friend,…
“So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna’ stiff me. And I say, ‘Hey Lama, hey, how about something, you know, for the effort. And he says, ‘Oh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me. Which is nice.”…
As my friend, the dictionary, would have it, trust is the following: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. “relations have to be built on trust” synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, certainty, assurance, conviction, credence; More reliance Trust is also tricky. Trust is built on tested truth, but testing that…
A Halloween message from your friend, Duncan Trussell: It’s Halloween…and most of you are aware of the fact that this holiday was originally called Samhain and that the door of the spirit world opened up and fairies and spirits were most active during the night of Halloween and the preceding days. So, this is probably…
I was talking with a friend online today about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, and I’ll be honest, I was pretty dismayed by where he landed on it. This is a guy I respect, someone who’s made genuinely smart arguments in the past, so I pushed him a little, hoping he’d come at it from…
by Cynthia Cone On October 7th, 2013, I was arrested with members of Veterans for Peace at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in NYC. My arrest was not a surprise. As a matter of fact, I went to NYC fully intent on going to jail that evening. Ending the wars is a cause I care very…
Mortality is a great heavy weight dangling over each and every one of us. It’s poised to strike us down when we are either least or most prepared for it. It doesn’t care. It’s part of life. I hate tragedy. This is when mortality’s strike is the most painful – when suddenly and unexpectedly it…
