by Robert S. Cox | Nov 10, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My first job was as a cowboy, or rather a horseboy (though that is another story). It was in the rump days of the late 1960s known as the early '70s, in the rump end of Huerfano County, Colorado, the county of orphans, of rolling mesas, silver and straw. Strung...
by Robert M. Wilson | Nov 13, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Veterans Day parades, ceremonies and speeches are the traditional ways we honor the service and sacrifice of our veterans. Without editorializing about such traditions, I want to suggest an additional means of observing November 11. Seek out a family member, neighbor...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Nov 17, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My father, Hans Bouricius, was born in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1921. When the Netherlands were made part of the greater German Reich in May of 1940, he was nineteen, and about to join the navy. Unfortunately, the Royal Netherlands Navy had just moved to England....
by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Nov 20, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I was in France this summer during the Democratic National Convention and here in the US for the Republican version. After both events had ended I realized that while I had been interested in the press coverage throughout I had been even more interested in the fact...
by David Mednicoff | Nov 24, 2008 | The Public Humanist
A few years ago, I was on a lecture tour in several Persian Gulf countries sponsored by the US Department of State, part of my gig as a Fulbright Scholar in Qatar. My US Embassy hosts in one country, honoring a request of mine, set up a meeting with some local...
