D. RANDALL FARO

CNN reports that remains have been uncovered in northern Peru of around 250 children aged 4-12 years old sacrificed by the pre-Columbian...

Most people are aware of TMI – too much information. In this so-called Age of Information, there is another phenomenon that could be...

Today is the anniversary of our daughter’s birth. Thirteen years ago, two days before her thirty-eighth birthday, she fell to her death...

For reasons that escape me, I’ve always liked challenging my body . . . testing the limits of what my body can do. Perhaps “motivated” is...

An interesting parlor game is to call out a word and ask participants whether it engenders positive or negative thoughts. Love, for...

Inside a Crimean cave on the north coast of the Black Sea a gigantic ancient mystery was recently discovered: the fossil of a bird so...

Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. Good or bad? Both. A whole lot of things can be either good or bad. Rain can be a heavenly gift to farmers...

The late Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, known for his extensive and complex philosophical treatises, once wrote a 5-word essay: Don't...

On Monday, 27 June 1853, a giant sequoia was brought to the ground by a band of gold-rush speculators in Calaveras county, California. It...

In courtroom trials, lawyers have some say in the selection of jurors. They have a number of premptory challenges which can be used...

Another one of the things I have tremendous difficulty understanding: continuing to do things that are knowingly harmful to oneself....

A widely read book published in 1978 by Erma Bombeck is titled: “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?” While not...

Mark Twain wrote: “I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.” At times I think Twain got...

The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Public Law 90-363) adopted by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives (1968) mandates that Columbus...

My last posting dealt with the confusing human trait of greed and how I have trouble fathoming the ludicrous limits to which same...

There are several things that I do not understand. Correction: the things I don’t understand would fill an encyclopedia or two. But...

People often base their lives on myths. Sometimes that’s okay . . . sometimes it does little or no harm. It can also be deadly evil. Some...

Neil Bartram wrote a musical play, The Theory of Relativity. Eighteen singers/actors and four musicians performed it at Capital High...

“What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” Maybe. Maybe not. “Ignorance is bliss.” Maybe. Maybe not. Some knowledge is interesting but more or...

Eighty-one voices tuned to near perfection as they sang out the creations of composers, lyricists, arrangerers, and directors. It was a...