On Aging
My dear grandkids, I want to share an observation with all of my grandchildren about aging. A seven year old child is considered perfectly developed. She is right where she belongs at seven. The beauty. The body. The bra…
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My dear family members, At this moment, some of us have already recognized the coronavirus’s advance on the United States as a personal crisis. Given what we know, what we are being told by the finest medical scientist w…
Thinking About Racial Issues and Police Departments
June – September 2020 My dear grandchildren, In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Nation is now convulsed by the egregiously unjust death of a black man by an officer in the Minneapolis Police department. Many, but n…
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