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Slow Writers and Blank Prose (and All That Noise)

What does a blank page have to do with a lack of noise?

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - My sainted mother lived the last half of the Roaring Twenties in New York City with my father, which was bad enough because he wrote tons of stuff for the pulps and was pretty noisy about it.

But she, naturally, grew up with rag-time, Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and was accordingly not unfamiliar with a few decibels.

A Winter Solstice Greeting

Modern western culture has set itself a drift from our natural moorings in our crazy belief that we are somehow above our own ecosystem...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The Winter Solstice arrived in Sacramento at 3:12 am this morning. This darkness outside my window was the longest night of the year.

Western scholars often misinterpret the fires and lights that marked this night among our ancestors, claiming that they were so primitive as to fear that the sun might not come back...

The New Normal...a View from the Eyes of a 14-Year Old

"Where can one be safe, ever? Is this the new normal?" asks a 14 year old.

(NEW YORK) - Imagine the Newtown, CT tragedy through the eyes of an impressionable 14 year old.

She was just born when Columbine happened and was too young to understand 9/11.

Moving Beyond Men`s Killing Fields

This author isn't blaming all men. But he is a man determined to take responsibility for the preponderance of violence perpetrated by men. He thinks about this and asks us to.

(PORTLAND, OR) - In the wake of Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage, men in particular, must not stay silent.

There’s an epidemic in our “man culture” we can ill afford to locate on the periphery, ceding center stage to the narrow gun control debate.

Tribute to the Teachers

During the early period of life, the family and the teacher act as the main reference for the child.

(MADRID) - The Spanish Foundation for Aid for Drug Addicts (FAD) has launched a new advertising campaign.

It highlights the important role played by the school teachers who, side by side with the families, are leading trainers in values.

Hindus Want Immediate End to Segregation of Roma Pupils in Czech Republic

Segregation of Roma children in Czech Republic schools had resulted in inferior quality education and limiting success.

(RENO, NV) - Hindus want immediate end to reported continual and systematic ethnic segregation of Roma (Gypsy) children in Czech Republic which, they say, is blatant racism.

Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged the EU to intervene immediately.

Marijuana Majority Chairman Reacts to Obama`s New Marijuana Statements

Decriminalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado is raising the stakes.

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Obama makes an interesting statement to Barbara Walters in a new interview to be released tonight.

"...it would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational [marijuana] users in states that have determined that it's legal."

Malignant Narcissism in Circumcision

The overwhelming majority of repeat sexual predators do what they do because they want to. John Douglas, FBI.[1]

(MONTEREY, CA) - The American Academy of Pediatrics crafted a criminally based Circumcision Policy Statement justifying male abuse and molestation.

Advisory members from other medical specialties included, in part, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urology and Family Practice as well as the Centers for Disease Control.

You Are God

Who... Me?

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - The statement "You are God" seems an absurd and presumptuous blasphemy, so it needs to be clarified. According to the Vedic tradition and panentheism, it's not just you who are God; all of us are God.

And it's not just all of us who are God; everything is God. God is the universe in synergy, the whole that is more than the sum of its parts.

Inside Iran: Naderi Café

For many, Naderi café has become an indispensable part of life.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Naderi café and hotel is the name of an old café in Tehran.

Naderi café is located to the east of Hafez overpass along Naderi (the present-day Jomhouri-e Eslami) Avenue and is topped by a hotel.