Well, it finally happened.
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There are many callings. Some people teach. Some people write. Some people sing operas, and some train dogs.
I cut my political teeth on United Farm Worker grape boycotts in California's San Joaquin Valley.
It takes love to bake a cake. Cakes cannot be baked indifferently or in a hurry.
I guess I am doin' all right. I'm studyin', and like the teacher says, it pays off.
This fall's elections were indeed a political turning point. The Democrats who say their debacle was only a rejection of politics in general and whoever was in power are just wrong.
It is fitting that this morning, after paying bills and moaning about another increase in our health insurance premium, I came across a Russian proverb in a nutrition magazine
A new day has dawned in our country. Unfortunately, that day is some time in the 1950s.
Someday I would like to see a cranberry harvest: crimson fruit floating on flooded coastal fields, skimmed off like a school of tropical fish.
What if, in front of the whole world, the U.S. pledged unequivocal U.S. support for the restoration of democracy in Haiti?
It started with the kind of silence that makes a parent sit bolt upright in his bed; an unnatural awakening, a feeling of something wrong.
As I yelled at Melissa and Gabriel for disobeying, a terrible contradiction flashed before me, but I beat it down, intent on winning this battle of wits.
Rufina Amaya is one of the few survivors of the 1981 massacre in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote.
Im not sure why I turned on the television that Friday night. Mountains stand between me and most airwaves, and my old TV set tunes into only two channels.
Its hot. The yard needs mowingthe grass is so tall I have to wear rubber boots in the morning dew.
People dont always say what they mean (I meant to say that). And this past summer brought several examples of the daily "little white lies" we tell each other.