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I am a retired Special Education Teacher and Administrator who worked for the California State Hospital System. I also worked briefly for the Department of Corrections. I presently serve as a member of the Executive Committee and as Chaplain for San Bernardino

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Health & Fitness > Sexual Health Should public organizations and schools distribute condoms?: 4 of 60
With the dissolution of the traditional home in which the father worked on the farm along with his siblings and father while the mother practiced homemaking, which included teaching the children too young for formal school, what schools need to teach has changed. Presently over a third of our nuclear homes have only one paren... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The ocean: 25 of 184
They call her Pacific; the peaceful ocean with gentle breaking wavesthat at times, pushed by the southern swell, rise twenty feet high.These great crushing foaming behemoths can kill. To them surfers slavewith their often heavy, always beautiful surf boards, they seem to fly!That same swell; those same waves can seek out sea ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Safety: 3 of 22
In my mind I am safe.It tells me what I want to hear.Even when I don't believe,I know God's protection is near.Hurtling along a dark highwaysudden blinding lights illuminatea trucks grillwork in my face!Swerving left; loss of control,just great!Sparks viewed hanging upside down;a shift and then we are rolling and I'm crusheda... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Losing love: 51 of 287
WhispersThere is no reason to listen for she is gone.Her voice has been stilled and will no moreanswer my comments, queries, pleas.Not even sibilant sounds from her lips reachour ears nor warm our hearts or cold souls.Silences deep now fill my heart sinceWisconsin's dark wet soil claimed her as his own.His turf would not part... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Comparative Religion Comparing the principles of Christianity and communism: 2 of 10
Jesus summed up Christianity in two commandments: Love God; and love your neighbor as yourself. He stated for clarification that it was impossible to love God whom we have not seen, if we fail to love our neighbor whom we have seen.Though some interpret this to mean Christians should be selfless, if one follows the logic that... More..
Relationships & Family > Marital Conflicts Things that can kill a marriage: 20 of 94
As a veteran of the marriage wars encompassing just over fifty years, my hind sight is fairly good. I have been widowed; I have been divorced twice and have divorced another wife. One thing they all share is an abundance of pain for all the parties involved, with the children being the most wounded of all.Death, of course, is... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: On abortion: 15 of 69
Gladly I accept that choices must be made,that we live where choices are a right.One speaks for a child, whose life has just begun,the other for her mother. Who knows who is right?The Pope pronounces that life begins at conception.Is he right or wrong? Native Americans claimthe child is not human until he learn to speak.Scien... More..
Education > Educational Philosophy Should schools be allowed to teach creationism alongside evolution as part of their science curriculum?: 17 of 78
Though I serve as a Chaplain for the American Legion and am sustained by my relationship with my maker, I must, in conscience, oppose the teaching of creationism in schools.Primarily, I must do so because the position represented is a minority view within the wider Christian Community. A great many practicing Christians see s... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Should one's faith influence a citizen's vote?: 69 of 307
First we should define faith. Faith and religion are not the same in my mind. Faith is an individual belief which shapes the one functions in life. An atheist has faith that the universe is governed by some natural force which has nothing to do with the god as defined by organized religion. A Christian, in most cases, has fai... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology The case for separation of church and state: 8 of 35
The colonists were a divergent lot with regard to religion. In most colonies, the colonists had come from kingdoms and principalities in which church and state were combined. Most had felt persecution of one kind or another for pursuing beliefs tangential to the state religion. They were a divergent group, made up of Deists;C... More..