Author: Jerome Danner

One day this week, I heard of some political issues being spoken about, and I decided to check Twitter to see what was going on politically. Then, I stumbled on a Twitter ‘moment’ (https://twitter.com/i/moments/829166461503553536) that shared information about Sen. Warren being silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and an old letter written by Coretta Scott King. While she [Warren] was reading a 30 year old letter apparently written by Mrs. King, she was “silenced,” which is apparently something that can take place under a rule called the Senate Rule XIX. Those things are not what interests me most, however. …

Election Day has come and gone, and we all know that we will look to a future where Mr. Donald Trump will be President Donald Trump. I must be honest and say that, like many others, I did not see that coming. Just from watching and reading the news, I knew that many people were not comfortable with Trump or Clinton being commander-in-chief, but I still expected people to vote for Clinton. Why, you might ask? Maybe because I watched too much biased media showing polls that showed her ahead. Maybe because the country feels like it is going…

Election time is here again. The question is: are you completely sure and comfortable with your voting decision? Early voting started on Oct. 17 and ends on Nov. 4. Election Day is Nov. 8. Unless you’re some kind of hermit or an extreme introvert who never talks to anyone about the news, you know these dates already. You know what time it is; you know that all of the campaigning, all of the debating, leads up to these next few weeks, and the next president of the United States. However, the final decision made in each of our minds of…

Recently, a conversation with my wife struck a chord in me that had me questioning her (as if she could honestly answer the question) about how there can be worship service attendees that are not actual believers of the Christian faith. In the same conversation, we debated how people could still think of themselves as Christian and not be faithful to a body of believers. Now, I don’t mean that it is the body of believers that deserve their and need their devotion, which would make them “more Christian.” I mean that (in the Christian faith) a body of…

In the valley of civil discourse, there rings an echo of truth which reminds us that in order to get far with our fellow human beings we must listen to one another. The whole point of civil discourse is having a free exchange of ideas between two or more persons. Guess what? In order for those ideas to be checked for the truth or falsehoods, the ideas have to actually be heard and considered. That means listening to the person that you are in a conversation with, whether it is civil or heated. It appears that learning what it is…

Recently, I went to a restaurant here where I desired to just get a box of egg rolls. I know what you are thinking: “That’s a weird craving.” I know it is kind of weird, but that is all that I had a taste for at that particular time. (Don’t act like I am too strange; I know that we all have been there at least once in our lives.) So, I went in to this place of business, grabbed a box, filled it with about nine egg rolls, and proceeded to head over to the counter to pay for…

How elusive “perfection” seems to be! Many of us desire to be a certain size or look a certain way, maybe even live a specific way, but we never quite reach or attain what is deep in our imagination. I am not saying that one can never reach satisfaction or contentment with themselves or their surroundings or circumstances. But with many humans, we still desire to look and live a certain way. I think this comes from our lives being saturated with images from our television sets, magazines, social media, and other internet sites that point to a certain look or a…

“Oh my, the times that we live in.” The statement is not necessarily meant to be negative. There are always good and bad that go along with any time period in which we humans exist. Think about it! Have you ever talked to an older relative or friend and they say something like, “Back in my day, we respected our parents!” This declaration usually is stated to imply that things are very much different (as the speaker sees it) than a time that they have lived through, which is usually a time period in which you yourself had not existed…