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  • Surviving Suffering Like a Champ

    Surviving Suffering Like a Champ0

    When a friend challenged me to a reading contest on Goodreads a couple of years ago, I was reluctant. Did I really want my reading selections broadcast on the internet for friends and strangers to see? Despite this qualm, my arm was twisted, and I began recording the books I read, often giving them a

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  • Taking a Breather From the Culture Wars Via Holiday Romance

    Taking a Breather From the Culture Wars Via Holiday Romance0

    Good grief! What has happened to me?          In the past week, I read A Christmas Courtship, by Shelly Shepard Gray, intending to review this romantic holiday novel for the Smoky Mountain News before realizing it would be too late for the holiday shopping season. Not only that, but in some fit

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  • The Truth About Gender IQ Differences

    The Truth About Gender IQ Differences19

    In all the brouhaha about diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and woke politics, the fact that there are real, observable differences between the sexes is often overlooked. This is particularly the case when it comes to the “intelligence quotient” or IQ. Everything else under the sun has been mentioned, over and over again, as an

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  • Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America

    Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America0

    As Pontius Pilate nears the end of his interrogation in the most fateful trial in history, Jesus says, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”          To which Pilate replies, “What is truth?”          Or as some might say today, “I have my truth, you have your

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  • Five Rules for Finding Purpose in Life

    Five Rules for Finding Purpose in Life0

    Today’s world is so full of fools who have turned the world into a chaotic mess, that the most basic, common-sense statements become nuggets of profound wisdom. I almost stood up and cheered when I came across one of these the other day. The statement in question was made by Abigail Shrier, an Oxford and

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  • It’s Time to Make Our Young People Tough

    It’s Time to Make Our Young People Tough0

    In mid-November, students at Eastern Illinois University took two days off from their rigid academic schedules for R&R.          University administrators and faculty members provided their young adults with a festival of ice cream, cocoa and cookies, coloring books, yoga, affirmation cards, and yes, trikes and LEGOS. All this, writes Alex Parker

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