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Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make

Thumbnail image for Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make by Thomas Norman DeWolf January 26, 2012

George Lucas, producer director of some of the most profitable films in Hollywood history (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), has been working on Red Tails, an action-packed, special effects-laden World War II movie for 23 years. He paid for it himself. He figured a studio would eventually come in and pay for distribution and publicity. [...]

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Life is a Journey Sometimes Walked in Light, Sometimes in Shadow

Thumbnail image for Life is a Journey Sometimes Walked in Light, Sometimes in Shadow by Lily Casura December 28, 2011

The book, “Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance,” by Native American writer Joseph M. Marshall III, opens with an extended monologue by the spiritual Lakota Sioux grandfather to his grandson, attempting to help him deal with loss. Here’s part of what he says: “In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well [...]

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Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation

Thumbnail image for Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation by Thomas Norman DeWolf December 6, 2011

Sharon and I both love cemeteries. One important aspect of the work we’ve committed ourselves to along our healing journey involves burial grounds. We both turn our heads to check them out when we pass them in our cars. We’ll walk through them and read headstones whether we have relatives buried there or not. Over [...]

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People I’ve Met Along The Way – Helen Keller

Thumbnail image for People I’ve Met Along The Way – Helen Keller by John W Strobel III November 20, 2011

I have met so many interesting and famous people in my lifetime that I sometimes forget about those were not as famous as some but were highly interesting, none the less. In my working career as a newsman-journalist in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to meet many and varied personalities from the fields of [...]

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On The Road

Thumbnail image for On The Road by Alexandra Wallace November 16, 2011

I spent more than half of my September on the road this year, traveling from bright Las Vegas to dusty Arizona, through the stunning Mesa Verde, and through corn. So. Much. Corn. The main destination of this adventure was to see my grandmother Elizabeth, or Bette, as we all know her as, for her ninety-sixth [...]

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My Remembrance Day

Thumbnail image for My Remembrance Day by Rochelle Burns November 10, 2011

November, about ten years after the end of World War II: I was standing in my public school auditorium. It was the annual Remembrance Day service. Some students were giggling behind me. My girlfriend, shifting her feet beside me, was picking lint from her poodle skirt. It seemed to me they did not care why [...]

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You Are Not Alone

Thumbnail image for You Are Not Alone by Mark Fraser September 29, 2011

A long time ago in North America, a great man that came to be known as the “Peacemaker” met with representatives of many northeastern indigenous nations to demonstrate the power of unity. He held a single arrow in the air and with a quick snap demonstrated how easily it could be broken as a single [...]

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A Night At Mickey’s Monkey With Etta James

Thumbnail image for A Night At Mickey’s Monkey With Etta James by John W Strobel III September 7, 2011

From the JWSIII series: People I’ve Met Along the Way Author’s prologue: The year 1965 was wrought with political upheaval and dissention, President Lyndon Johnson was ramping up the Viet Nam war, it was  the year of war protests and the Watt’s Riots. It was also the year an underworld character, a bookie who was [...]

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Are You Living ‘Deliberately’?

Thumbnail image for Are You Living ‘Deliberately’? by Rochelle Burns July 13, 2011

                    “I went to the woods to live deliberately so that I might not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” said Henry David Thoreau. He used his inner wisdom to realize he needed to know why he was here on Planet [...]

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Places I’ve Been Along the Way – Trinidad, part II

Thumbnail image for Places I’ve Been Along the Way – Trinidad, part II by John W Strobel III July 13, 2011

Author’s note: Last week in “Places I’ve been along the way”, I told you of how I lived and worked in New Orleans and Trinidad, British West Indies mapping offshore oil exploration sites. This week I’ll take you there and introduce you to a happy, calypso singing people who lived to party. JWSIII On our [...]

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