This morning, I woke up feeling like I shouldn鈥檛 bother getting out of bed. My brain felt mushy, my motivation level was somewhere south of nowhere, my eyes were heavy, and, well, you get it. Then I read a post by a wonderful physician friend of mine, Dr. Angela LaSalle. When I was ...
My grandmother handed me a nickel, pointed toward the road, and sent me to buy an ice cream cone at a store named Grammy鈥檚. I was 4 1/2 years old. It was a hot, humid summer night, the kind where the porch screen door sticks and even the neighbors鈥� dogs are too tired to bark. The memory ...
Once, a Marine from Fayette County was laid to rest in a Connellsville cemetery, with his family, including his grieving mom and dad, beside the open grave. Earlier on the day of the burial, the pastor at the funeral service eulogized the young leatherneck as a warrior in the service of God ...
Q. I just got my first job. I鈥檓 excited because I can use the money. Imagine my surprise when I got my first check and all sorts of deductions were taken out. Why do I need to pay taxes? I鈥檓 too young to vote. Doesn鈥檛 that equal the 鈥渢axation without representation鈥� that started the ...
In April 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., and the start of the American Civil War, Edward G. Roddy, editor of the Uniontown Genius of Liberty newspaper, wrote, "Amidst the civilizations of the 19th century, we are on the very brink of ruin, despotism, and ...
One of my education professors built an entire course around one uncomfortable idea: too often, we are not taught how to think. We live 鈥渟timulus-response lives.鈥� He said most people walk into a room, hang their brains on a hook, and don鈥檛 question anything. In retrospect, he might have ...
