Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.
If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.