by Morning Reflections | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When Dr. Francis Collins was nominated in 2009 to head the National Institutes of Health, the USA’s largest scientific organization, not everyone was happy. One scientist asserted that Collins suffers from...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
A few minutes after I hit Send on yesterday’s reflection – the one concerning sports mascots, which included the point that no major school’s team is represented by sheep – I myself was taken to school by several readers. The “Dirtbags” are the mascot of Cal State...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here Universities and professional sports franchises are famous for picking tough-sounding nicknames for their football teams. That’s why this fall the Wolverines, Badgers, Jaguars, Tigers, Panthers,...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click hereContrary to the popular marketing slogan, one size usually doesn’t fit all.Oh, that may be true of wristwatches, neck chains, bicycle helmets, T-shirts made of certain stretchable fabrics, and baseball caps with...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here People make sense of their lives by means of the stories they believe. Those narratives can spring from many sources: parental guidance, childhood experiences, religious instruction, favorite...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click hereIt’s tempting to assume that America’s current election cycle has set new lows for rudeness, incivility, and slander.Most historians, however, would suggest that our country’s darkest political hour came in the year...
