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 This blog is not intended to answer the title question, although I do think it is an important question to consider.  My research uncovered...

  Do we know enough to do what we are doing? Do you remember as a child hearing one of your parents saying to you "Do you think you hav...

It depends on what we teach them What are we teaching our children when commercials often disrespect parents or parents disrespect children?...

 The trees are budding as I look out the window, a sign that summer and kids at home are not far away.  Do kids still look forward to findin...

 I hope that most people would agree that truth is a Big Deal.  Over the years I have blogged about the significance of telling the truth, f...

  As many of you know, I enjoy reflecting on brief quotes.  Often, they make me reflect more deeply than a long speech.  This week quotes ha...

Most of you know that I often consult the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and once again I seek their prospective.  In the process of gainin...

Scare Crow Our home is going to feel a little empty soon, for just like always, kids will want to go away on their own to see the world.  Bu...

Those who fought for Freedom When Sandra Day O'Conner left the Supreme Court Bench, primarily because of the poor health of her husband,...

Recently I had two things happen only a few days apart.  One regular reader of my blog wrote in my comment section that I had "pussy fo...

 Recently, at a performance in our town, the performers asked couples in the audience to raise their hands and keep them raised as long as t...

My great grandmother and her daughter, her son's daughter, and me--four generations in my family were teachers.          The old saying ...

  I had some understanding of Sanctuary cities, but I realized that I needed to do more research to better understand.  I had no idea of the...

  President Washington was the first to grant a pardon.  The purpose of pardons was to grant mercy, correct judicial errors, and promote nat...

Buddies Have you noticed just how intelligent animals can be, and how sometimes they have buddies, like these two that we watched for severa...

Recently I came across a campaign speech for the presidency.  The candidate chose to make one of his first speeches in Kansas.  His theme wa...

      I have sometimes wondered how Presidents feel on the day they leave the Presidency.  Are they satisfied with the decisions they made? ...

    A regular follower of my blog reminded me that I had not included the ways in which those earliest people to occupy the Northen Hemisphe...

 My husband and I are gifting our collection of the Wizard of Oz to Fort Hays State University, and I am going through all of the collection...

 We are in the midst of the winter holiday season.  It is a good time to reflect on the special nature of our history.  Certainly, the tradi...

       There has been so much reporting on the news about immigration, a topic I assumed was a distant matter in my own family.  However, on...

  Was there really a Thanksgiving Meeting between English colonists and Wampanoag people?  Apparently yes, but it was not necessarily what w...

The First Amendment  Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging ...

My blog last spring titled "Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" addressed the upheaval when President Donald Trump named himse...

Sometimes the ideas for my blog just pop into my head with no explanation.  Last night we were returning from a wonderful musical performanc...

 While I was browsing online, I came across an article titled "Are we worse than people used to be.?"   Psychologists Adam Mastroc...