The Eye of the Beholder

In August, the International Association of Athletics found itself at the center of a gender controversy. Rumors swirled around the Women’s 800m World Champion, Caster Semenya, with several people – including a couple of competitors who lost against Semenya – implying that she was really a he. So compelling were the rumors that the IAA [...]

10 Words

“She judged her life by the moments of greatest sadness and greatest happiness, but she lived in the moments in-between.” The above sentence was my attempt at a challenge (issued by Soul Pancake) to write a ten-word biography. Mine, if you counted, is not ten words. It’s twenty. With my apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, I [...]

If I knew then what I know now

Albert Einstein supposedly said, “The only souce of knowledge is experience.” I’m not sure I agree with Al on that one, but he’s not wrong. The various experiences we have in our lives do teach us a lot about ourselves and the world around us. Earlier this week, Soul Pancake asked readers to list 3 [...]