Here’s the story I found fascinating about a sacred piece of art I purchased one day while touring Bari in southern Italy. I’m sharing it on the eve when the nativity of Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, is celebrated–Sept. 8. It’s a picture of the blessed mother with her hands beneath her garments and her … More Kazan Mother of God, An Icon from the Ashes
Public Relations firms create much more than publicity, as valuable as that is! In fact, you could call many publicists artful sculptors. The leading PR firms create and sculpt media messaging that perfectly defines and aligns with outcomes and benefits their respective clients seek. And the most productive publicists do it artfully in ways that best … More Sculpting PR Campaigns To Make Them Impactful!
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney may have unwittingly created a new expression for going off your rocker. This is when he announced whopping retaliatory tariffs against products of its closest, most powerful ally, the United States which for the Canadian economy is nothing short of nutty. Trump officials have repeatedly expressed frustration that Canada is … More A new expression a’coming:‘Has he gone, Carney?’
I was taken aback by former secretary of labor Robert Reich recently posting an apology for his occasional “long windedness.” Reich says this happens when writing on subjects he feels deeply about or wants to make satirically surgical incisions into some hyper-inflated conservative skulls. That’s one of the things I like about Robert Bernard Reich, … More Meet the Master of ‘Long Windedness?’
Ducktown was the name of the Italian American section of Atlantic City, NJ, where Raffaele and Genoveffa Imperiale resided at 20 North Georgia Avenue, you might say imperially with their 11 children, one of them Clementine, or Lina as her brothers and sisters called her. I would one day call her “mom.” Raffaele and Genoveffa … More Don’t Duck from Whence You Came, ‘Ducktown’ Descendants Be Proud!
Sure, if you want to cool off from impressive heat, one of the coolest places on this stewing planet is Alaska. But if you’re looking to go fishing for freshwater salmon there, you’re going to have to wait in some areas for certain species such as Yukon River Chinook (king) salmon to regenerate. Right now, … More In Alaska We Must Wait for The King to Get Better
Here’s a painfully true story about a wounded beach foot soldier that I’ll lay right at your feet as maybe beneath it is an important message. It’s about one of mine not up to par, actually my whole left leg is hurting from which my left foot is now an ailing exclamation point. While my … More Right Leg Guarding Wounded Left
Can’t you just imagine what Iran regime leaders dream about at night, how one day their nuclear bombs will resoundingly answer all their prayers. Not only have they been praying “Death to Trump,” but their ultimate ambition might be to nuke out of existence what they regard as Trump’s entire country which they feel is … More Iran, Listen to Trump: No Nuclear Bombs!
Yes, to me writing is not just an artful form of expression, but can it greatly enrich and benefit exhaling. If you just take it all in and keep it there, you’re bound to impregnate your mind with endlessly regurgitating thought, worries that can make you restless, even up all night. Writing is the exhaust … More Why is Writing Healthy? It Improves Breathing!
Divisions will always abound. Today those embarrassing, exasperating splinters and splits within parties, groups and clubs are also occurring nerve-rackingly in the world’s largest Christian denomination, Catholicism. Typically, dissention leading to divisions or sects is caused by differences in opinions, politics and even in religious beliefs held by a discontented hardcore of traditionalists within groups. … More Vatican Excommunicates Bishops, Declares Their Society a Schism