Four years ago, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, then vice-presidential nominee John Edwards delivered a speech proclaiming, Hope is on the way. Everyone seemed to believe that Sen. Edwards was talking about the hope that a new...

I remember about seven years ago my wife gave me a call from the obstetricians office. She was due in about three or four weeks. As she was arranging her next checkup, she looked up at the television in the doctors office and saw a plane fly into...

The playwrite proclaims, We are born astride the grave, and each night the evening news echoes the refrain. We respond with various stages of grief and working out our own salvation with fear and trembling. We do this individually and we do it...

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Finally, I get a chance to sit quietly in front of my computer. Television convention coverage is streaming into my PC. I havent read a lot of the blogs, twitters, friend feed or other sites. I was close to catching up on my email, and now Ive...