Justice Samuel Alito has been approved, and Coretta Scott King has died. And yet it is another beautiful day, and daffodils are swelling along my street. Will they make it through the surprise frosts yet to come, or will they succumb, to try again another year?
Sunday I spoke about the fact that life [...]

I now understand the “joke” about St. Louis weather, “If you don’t like it, just wait a minute.” Perhaps it wasn’t told right to me, but it didn’t seem all that funny. I mean, weather changes everywhere; that’s the nature of weather. But the 20-30 degree difference between one day and the [...]

” ‘At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life,’ said [a prison spokesman]. ‘We would resuscitate him,’ then execute him.”
–From an AP article about Clarence Ray Allen, killed by lethal injection this morning in California. He was 76, legally blind, and had a heart attack in September. The [...]

And it gets easier every day. Several people had follow-up questions about veganism after my address on Sunday. If you’d like more info on vegetarianism and veganism, there’s a great site at goveg.com. It’s run by the folks at PETA, whom I don’t always agree with–their radical fringe has hurt their [...]

I thought some of you might want to add your thoughts regarding a conversation we had at the end of our Board meeting last night.
You may know that we currently have a Long Range Planning committee working on organizing our programs, establishing evaluation procedures, raising revenue for our ongoing expenses, and looking forward to creating [...]

I thought I’d contribute a few personal reflections on food after hearing Kate’s platform address this past Sunday (January 8.) In case you missed it, in her platform she describes how becoming a vegan helped her recognize the need to encompass a variety of viewpoints to understand a larger picture. (I greatly simplify [...]

I was raised in New York City, the walking capital of America (sez us). As the national news showed in December during the transit strike, New Yorkers can walk for miles to get where they need to go—across bridges in freezing weather, dodging cabs all the way. So when we found a place [...]