“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” ―Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States It’s been one year since the Herald’s near-death experience. Thanks to the dedicated support of so many of you in our local[Read More…]
Editor’s Column
EDITOR’S COLUMN – October 10th, 2024
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ―Arthur Conan Doyle I used to think presenting factual information was the way people changed their minds. Now we have all the information we could[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – October 3rd, 2024
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” ―Terry Pratchett Wednesday, Oct. 2 marked six years since the coroner came to my office to notify me that my oldest son was dead. For those who don’t know or remember, Ethan was 26,[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – September 26th, 2024
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” ―Benjamin Franklin Sept. 22-28, 2024, marks the annual observation of Banned Books Week, first established in 1982 by the Office of Intellectual Freedom at the American Library[Read More…]
Editor’s Column – September 19th, 2024
“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts..” ―E.B. White The word prejudice means to pre-judge. The human brain is designed to use prejudice as a shortcut. With pre-built prejudices, we can form opinions, make assumptions, and take corresponding action without wasting[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – September 12th, 2024
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ―William Faulkner On my first visit to the ocean I waded hesitantly into the surf, feeling the ground seem to disappear beneath me as the water receded, only to be knocked down by the[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – September 5th, 2024
“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” ― Aristotle With Labor Day just passed, I’ve been mulling over the outrageous value of the thousands of hours of volunteering and other unpaid work and service that keep our society functioning. The presence — and necessity[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – August 29th, 2024
“I’m tired, boss… Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other.” ― “The Green Mile,” Stephen King Can you relate? If you still have a smidgen of decency left in your soul, I think you do. Maybe it’s always been this way, or maybe the ugliness has become[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – The ‘Othering’
“You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms with the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” ― The Breakfast Club Othering is[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – What if our emotional energy is the latest commodity for sale?
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” ― Vincent Van Gogh I was horrified by the 1977 book “Coma,” where unsuspecting hospital patients are rendered comatose and their healthy organs harvested for sale. A similar premise[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – Change is tough. It’s also unavoidable.
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” ― Robert Fulghum Ah, change. That’s practically a four-letter word around these parts. I chuckle a little when folks who’ve been here a year[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN : The stories that color our lives
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” ― Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Humans are wired for storytelling. Before the written word, before the printing press, before radio or television or the internet, we preserved our history, our[Read More…]
