It was surreal.  An ornate white carriage, the clip clop of hooves, a plethora of vegetation, fountains, ponds and thousands of people enjoying a myriad of events with their friends and loved ones.  I was experiencing my first trip to Central Park. What an enjoyable experience!  The carriage ride and snacks were a little bit pricy, but worth the splurge.  I have lived only a few hours

It was early in the morning, and I was eager to get started on my summer job of scrapping out the apartment building my employer was building. I climbed into the dump truck and headed to the job site, but within a few blocks the engine coughed and shut down. I was young and had little experience with engines, so I did my best

In the United States Capitol rotunda hangs a 12’ by 18’ oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist John Trumbull. This beautiful and priceless painting recreates the spirit of the historic meeting in which our forefathers presented a draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress.  Trumbull first painted a much smaller version of the same scene, which is now displayed at the Yale University

One Hundred forty-three years ago Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”  Some have embraced that philosophical comment as a statement of fact. Others would argue that even the author was making the point that the way people think can cause them to ignore the obvious. A case could be made that too much religion, too much humanistic