Opinion

Jane Austen wrote in Persuasion, “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”...

I was reminded of something very important this past weekend - Life really is what you make of it. When things don’t go our way, we can sit down and feel sorry for ourselves or we can pull ourselves up by our boot straps and keep walking. It’s a choice...

This week we remember - an attack that occurred 20 years ago... an attack on American freedoms that changed our lives forever. On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. ...

Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Mrs. Chawla was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere...

I now have a new identity and I must admit it pretty much consumes my life. I am a COVID-19 survivor. Some say I cheated death. I say God sent the Devil running. One year ago, I took my story public for two reasons... to share my testimony of the true power of God and to warn others of the serious consequences of this virus. ...