I’m a staunch pacifist, but I love war memorials. There’s something about giant granite or marble slabs honoring the heroic dead that produces stillness in my heart. Over spring break, I had the opportunity to go to Washington, D.C. for a day. It’s impossible to cram much of the historic city into the few hours that we had, but we walked through the National Mall...
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Yesterday morning, a gunman went on a chaotic shooting spree in Southern California, killing four people, including himself, and injuring two. How many of you know about this shooting? As I was perusing my daily news sources, it struck me by how casual the news story seemed, shoved between a beer brewery story and a piece about a British man dying from a SARS-like virus....
Music lovers and musicians sit nestled in a tiny, rustic cabin, located in the historic town of Hernando, Miss. Sounds of fiddles and banjos being plucked fill the cool night air. Slowly the little cabin is bursting with bluegrass music. On any given Thursday night, you will find a group of musicians strumming and sharing laughs as they play a medley of bluegrass...
