(originally published in Shattered magazine) A New School Year Calendars tell us that the beginning of the year is January first, but every mother knows that the true beginning of each New Year is back-to-school time.  I love the beginning of a new school year, don’t you?  As a child, I was mesmerized by fresh […]

We read an interesting Proverb today, didn’t we? “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.” I think that this is a particularly big struggle that we face in modern times, because we are more aware than at any other time in history of the […]