Gun Violence is Everywhere in America

There’s a shortage of mental health professionals to work with troubled individuals before they decide to create a bomb or to blow themselves up. So, while we have become experts at reacting after the fact, we still have a long way to go in what I will call here public safety.


September Magazine

We focus on education through a lens that surpasses what we learn in school. We have stories about people doing amazing things to cultivate lifelong learning and to champion our thirst for wisdom. Reverend Anne Saunders was called to be a minister in the early 1980s. Her journey as a teacher, a wife, a mother, caretaker to her parents, and as a minister is one of profound faith. Barbara Lloyd McMichael writes about the launch of her pilot project “Tempests and Teapots” that explores lesser known facts in American Colonial History. Stay tuned for a presentation of “Tempests and Teapots,” coming soon in your neck of the woods. Our book review, How To Know A Person by David Brooks, probes how we can learn to expand our emotional intelligence by giving other people a chance to be seen and heard. Yonkers Historian Mary Hoar writes about prominent journalist, author and activist John Edward Bruce who is long overdue to receive a stone of substance.  –Patricia Vaccarino


Two Democracies Voted for Autocratic Rule – Could We?

 Many articles have discussed how authoritarianism could emerge in America. However, I believe this is the only one that compares how that has recently happened in two other democratic republics and what the parallels are to what is happening here.  – Nick J. Licata


The Hymn in Her Heart

The Reverend Anne Saunders almost died when she was a child. Scarlet fever ran rampant, afflicting children everywhere, regardless of the color of their skin or how much money their families had. In the late 1930s, most children stayed home to heal, but Anne Saunders was so sick that her father wanted to take her to the hospital. He was told that if he took her to the hospital, she wouldn’t be alive when she got there.


Lifelong learning “brews” up new insights

Barbara Lloyd McMichael writes about the launch of her pilot project “Tempests and Teapots,” that explores lesser known facts in American Colonial History. Stay tuned for a presentation of “Tempests and Teapots,” coming soon in your neck of the woods.


Book Review: How To Know A Person by David Brooks

David Brooks explores a richly textured landscape far beyond the usual scope of his Sunday NYT oped piece. “When I was young, I wanted to be knowledgeable, but as I got older, I wanted to be wise,” he states. Brooks is not alone in his quest seeking wisdom. There is a great need to see a person for who he or she really is inasmuch as there is a deeply heartfelt desire to be loved for who we really are.  


A Stone Suitable for a Great Man: John Edward Bruce

Prolific journalist and author John Edward Bruce laid in an unmarked grave at Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers for 100 years. The James H. Farrell Lodge #34, Prince Hall Masons, recognized the injustice of this important, talented man going unrecognized; they arranged to have a temporary marker placed on his grave.  The lodge is now raising funds for a permanent stone. 


UNITED OR DIE: “The Future Lies Ahead”

UNITED OR DIE: “The Future Lies Ahead” is the fifth essay in a six-part series by Dr. Peter Corning. He argues that a Global Governance Initiative must be launched as a driver in global politics to meet our growing crisis.