Across Africa, a war is being waged on women - but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia slice...

Daughter Claire was home over the weekend and the big news was her plan to get a new puppy. Claire took it pretty hard when her dog Darcie died over the holidays. We all took it pretty hard. Chris and I had been taking care of Darcie while Claire was away at school. I'm secretly happy about this dec...

Once upon a time, when I was newly pregnant and the prospect of several weeks off from work still felt like a distant dream, I thought I might try to write a book during maternity leave. Oh, ha HA. Everyone kept telling me that babies sleep a lot, especially during the first three months, and that I...

I'm not sure I've ever witnessed a more disgraceful performance by a so-called journalist than what transpired on Wednesday's "Hardball."  In fact, from the moment MSNBC's Chris Matthews introduced his guest, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, the "Hardball" host ...

A reader writes: I'm in my late 20's, and have spent the past 6 years working in systems engineering and operations.  I've worked my way up the ladder to the point that the next logical jump is a management role. The current economy means that the jobs that I would have been applying for had I ...

No easy answers here, and maybe not applicable to all situations, but I found an article on LifeWay's website with this title.  It's written by Dr. Keith Hamilton.  Here's some information about Dr. Hamilton. . . Keith Hamilton, D.Ed.Min, CFP, CRPC is with the  Georgia Baptist Convention . He ha...

Try to imagine a young educated marxist conscript who had lost his consciousness during the Battle of the Somme, was then cryogenically frozen, and only revived last year. What would be his analysis of the conflicts in the Middle East? To answer this, consider John Spritzler's latest contribution. T...

Wife of Union General Ulysses S. Grant Born at White Haven Plantation west of St. Louis. Missouri, Julia Dent was the daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and merchant. She grew up there in a typically Southern atmosphere. Julia, the fifth of seven children and the first girl, ...

You’d think that the Wall Street Journal would own the biggest story of the past year, the meltdown of capitalism-as-we’ve-known-it. But the paper’s coverage has lagged. It did good work on the collapse of Bear Stearns a year ago, but for the most part it has done a mediocre job of...

Varastin tämä suoraan Facebookista, koska tämä puhutteli minua. A simple life has a different meaning and a different value for every person. For me, it means eliminating all but the essential, eschewing chaos for peace, and spending your time doing what’s important to you. It means getting ri...