D. RANDALL FARO

Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. Then he rose from the dead. He chronicles his death and resurrection in the self-revealing book,...

Alpine mountaineers - especially those who climb the big mountains (25,000’ and higher) – have an inviolable dictum coined by...

Have you ever been quoted? Have you said or thought things that would be worth quoting? I’ve been collecting quotes for four decades . ....

Some folks have really bad luck with their thinking. That’s putting it graciously. A person can be honest, caring, and respectful in many...

In a magazine to which I have subscribed for forty years, the editor began a recent issue with an explanation of the publication’s...

“History was a useless discipline, an assemblage of accounts and memories, often flawed, that in the end did the world no service. Math...

In Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger one of the main characters is John LePere, son of a white father and a mother of the...

A few weeks ago I quoted Marlene Dietrich a saying: “There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being...

The sophisticated use of language is unique to people. To be sure, other animals communicate, but not even close to the complexity and...

Santosh Kalwar is a professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland whose primary focus is on human-computer...

Danaus plexippus is the scientific name for the monarch butterfly. I knew that . . . a long time ago. I knew it because Miss Richards...

Mma Ramotswe is the owner/operator of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, the first in a delightful series of books by Alexander McCall...

Back in the day, on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, we had this saying – particularly when serving in a combat zone: “Pain...

Numerous websites list “greatest leaders in history.” The names vary, but the following individuals can be found on one or another:...

At the conclusion of Sunday worship it is common for the pastor to stand at the door and greet the participants. Occasionally one will...

There are three components to a novel: description, action, and dialogue. Tutoring websites for aspiring authors differ regarding a...

A first century rabbi told a story about two brothers, both of which were told by their father to work in the vineyard. One said he would...

“There are things and special people worth living for.” Spoken by Navy submarine captain, Malachi Stormes, in P.T. Deutermann’s excellent...

The actress Marlene Dietrich reportedly said that “there is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”...

If you want to know what is important to me, don’t ask me. Watch me. We DO what is important to us. We can say what we think other people...