Orthopedic Surgery

Monday Morning, March 30, 2009
Lorey Dan is one of the more popular teachers over there at Travis Ranch School in Yorba Linda.  No surprise that she teaches language arts to junior high kids – she’s got a sharp, quick wit, and an irrepressible sense of humor. 
So this weekend, when she tipped over while piloting a [...]

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Left Brain/Right Brain

Monday, March 23, 2009
When I first read about the research back in the seventies, I was intrigued.  It caught my attention, I think, because I am left-handed and us lefties always feel like we are somehow qualitatively different than everyone else.  Beyond a reliance on the opposite hand, exactly how we are out of the [...]

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The Radio Preacher

Monday morning, March 16, 2009
It’s not common for a mainline denominational pastor to be a hero in an academy award winning film, but that’s what happened this year.  What’s even better is that the real life character that inspired the screen actor is grandfather to two friends of mine (they are cousins).
This preacher feared no [...]

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The First Graduating Class

…in the Dalit Freedom Network of Schools
Saturday February 28, 2009 for Monday, March 9, 2009 
I saw the schedule.  And as Joseph would mention the next morning in the worship service at Good Shepherd Community Church, it was a carefully crafted program.  Each participant was informed in advance of order, timing and time constraints.  The program [...]

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Dr. D’souza

Monday, March 2, 2009
I’m not ready to make the parallel between this Indian social reformer and say, Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln or William Wilberforce or Martin Luther for that matter.  It would be a stretch to suggest that he is poised to have this level of national [...]

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