The View from This Seat

In my previous blog post , I recommended watching Michael Dowd’s 25-minute YouTube video titled “Serenity Prayer for the 21 st Century.” Si...

Don’t Look Up has been a much-viewed, much-discussed movie this month. There has been a wide variety of comments about that Netflix film bo...

It’s been a hard year since January 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46 th POTUS—and it has been a harder year for him th...

You probably have never heard of a fellow named Ernest Ackerman, but he was the first person in the U.S. to receive Social Security benefits...

The most basic teachings of Jesus Christ are found in what is known as the Sermon on the Mount as recorded in chapters five through seven of...

One hundred and thirty years ago, on January 1, 1892, the first federal immigration station in the U.S. opened on Ellis Island in New York H...

Today is New Year’s Eve in the Western world, but I am posting this after the new year has already begun in East Asia. So, in true Japanese ...