What Makes You Unique; Creating Six-Word Memoirs
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response was this; “For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” Back in November 2006, SMITH Magazine asked readers to send in their own Six-Word Memoirs. They were meant to be...
Life Is A Banquet
Springtime reminds us to begin anew, to put aside our old worn out worry, hurry and hate that we drag around from the winter chill.
The Good of Good Friday
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
~ W.H. Auden”
Is it time we embrace ‘digital volunteerism’ in a disaster?
Despite highly specialized and capable emergency management systems, ordinary citizens are usually first on the scene in an emergency or disaster and remain long after official services have ceased. However, in most developed countries, emergency and disaster...
Hard Times
by Robert Kenneth Jones There is a poignant nineteenth century tune written by Stephen Collins Foster called “Hard Times Come Again No More.” The beautiful and haunting lyrics cry; “It’s a song and a sigh of the weary. Hard times, hard times, come again no more....