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renee-sigel's picture
Apr.24.2009
Reading the headlines lately about President Obama releasing information about severe interrogation techniques, among which were the more insidious; such as waterboarding, apprarently approved by Ms Rice while in office and having just signed a petition I received from George Soros foundation, I...
renee-sigel's picture
Feb.21.2009
 ............." Polo is karma. I believe. Its also about a way of life. People notice the frills but there is much more. It's dedication. It is love. It's care and it's passion. It  is about rewarding and it's teaching. Learning all along forever. And it's a great sorter: The shallow ones...
renee-sigel's picture
Feb.19.2009
 Mark Twain said    " We are all ignorant only about different things...."  I've always loved the stripped psychological simplicity of this inversion of knowledgeable worth; though this doesn't disguise my rather passionate disposition with things  which may seem blatantly nonsensical and...
renee-sigel's picture
Feb.16.2009
A Place of Disrespect   Mythologies. We buy into them. We shape our lives by what we read and think we learn from them... Imperceptibly, the very difference between solitude and loneliness becomes the proscenium of our own daily, privately disingenuous stagecraft and remains the arch within...
robert-earle's picture
Feb.14.2009
The current economic crisis afflicting the world (not just the United States) makes this an excellent moment to read and reflect on William Bernstein's superbly argued thesis about the nature of prosperity. Using historical, economic and sociological analyses and case studies, Bernstein develops...
jennifer-lyn-king's picture
Nov.18.2008
This week, I turn the big 3-5! Whoa, I think. Just like every other birthday, I think back to all the well-meaning people who tell me that it all goes by too fast. And every time I hear or think that, I realize the well-meaning words are true. So true. Who would think I’ve been out of high school...
d-j-russell's picture
Jul.04.2008
In these trying times, it is easy to believe that we might have somewhere along the way been abandoned by God.  Either that or we simply don't know how to apply the rules to lives that bear no resemblance to those peope that Jesus walked amongst 2,000 years ago.  There are some that insist that God...