by Morning Reflections | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Throughout the 1950s Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, sang to packed-out church sanctuaries and public auditoriums.Numerous agents and producers beckoned her to do what is now called crossing over: She ought to go secular. She could be big. She...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
“There’s no crying in baseball!”That’s the most frequently quoted line from A League of Their Own, the 1992 feature film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which opened the door for women to play pro ball when World War II sent numerous MLB...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was a student in college when affordable handheld calculators first hit the market. A manufacturer’s rep came to one of our classrooms and demonstrated his product’s dazzling array of bells and whistles. Were there any questions? A student asked why...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Two summers ago more than two million people signed a petition.They intended to storm Nevada’s ultra-secretive Area 51 so they could, in the words of one signee, “see them aliens.” Conspiracy theorists have long held that the American government is hiding...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
For a number of years, psychologist Henry Cloud led a support group for inpatients at a hospital who were struggling with addictions and other vexing life issues.In his book How People Grow, Cloud specifically recalls one of the group members whom we’ll call...
