Articles on Current Events

As often happens when I sit down to my computer to write this weekly opinion article, I am faced with several choices as to the subject that the article should be.

It's easy to think of life as a trip through a treasure-house of experiences. Climbing Everest. Flying around the world in eighty days, or to the edge of space. The truth is that all the pleasures, all the experiences of this world, are given to us for one reason only: that we might sense to the smallest degree, the taste of life itself. But what is life itself if not our experiences in it?

When tragedy strikes, each one of us must make an accounting.

We live in a time when written letters and even typed letters are no longer the main means of communication. Everything today is done by either mobile phone or electronic mail.