City

  A COUPLE MILLION PEOPLE a CITY is a couple million people pretending not to look at one another   but they must steal secret glances once in while because they are all wearing the same expression, skillfully mimicked to the last talon of each crow’s foot, emulations of fiction and even the freest of...

Civil Rights For The Mind

  I enjoy the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day because I enjoy the freedom that he and others with him have brought to my mind.  Many of us forget to appreciate the courageous acts of those who struggled for equality, because we often assume that, had we lived then, we would have been on...

Generations

EIGHT GENERATIONS The first generation to take charge of its happiness Died sad   The second generation to take charge of its happiness, Having been raised by the members of the first generation, Died sad and unloved   The third generation to take charge of its happiness, Having watched its parents trampled into decimation by...

Stereotype

Generalizations About Stereotypes I gladly accept the risk of making the following generalization: When confronted with its stereotypes, West Virginians tend to respond much more graciously than any other group.   Is there a stereotypical West Virginian?  Most certainly.  Forever the quintessential Appalachian state, West Virginia finds itself the punch-line of the hillbilly, redneck, or...