Cory L. Kemp
Coming Home
Travelocity.com and I are becoming intimately acquainted on my diligent quest for flights home sometime in the next few months. Many other state tourism bureaus clam the title "God's Country" for their neck of the woods, but ...
Date Posted: June 04, 2008
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
So much of history repeats itself. Consider conversations swirling more vividly regarding the United States' use of torture during interrogations with Iraqi insurgents and suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay.
Date Posted: October 18, 2007
What Not to Talk About
I just finished reading, To Find Out Something Only Dead Men Know, an article by Christopher Cooper posted today at Common Dreams, a web site dedicated to liberal news and views. Mr.
Date Posted: October 05, 2007
Learning Abundance
What images come to mind when you consider the word abundance?Are beautiful homes, shiny cars, lush resorts filled with palm trees and expansive beaches what you imagine?
Date Posted: October 03, 2007
This Place for Today
Packing is arduous business.Finding myself relocating to a new city means participating in the age-old, time-honored practice of pulling up stakes, shutting off utilities and looking ahead to another part of my life as it unfolds.
Date Posted: July 10, 2007
We Gather Together
Today marks the beginning of the Group of Eight, or G8 Summit, a meeting of leaders from the world's wealthiest industrialized nations to discuss global economic and development issues.
Date Posted: June 06, 2007
Discount Kingdom
This past holiday weekend, like every one on the calendar, provided endless opportunities to SAVE! SAVE! SAVE!. If Congress has legislated a postal holiday there is an equal and AMAZING BLOWOUT! or EXTRAVAGANZA!
Date Posted: May 29, 2007
A Mother's Day
This Sunday marks one of the busiest days for our nation's telephone system. Sunday is Mothers Day and we are told that moms like flowers, jewelry, appliances, family gathered around the table and phone calls from those unable to present...
Date Posted: May 11, 2007
People We Know
Among all the disturbing stories to come out of the Iraq War, now into its fifth year, one more, which I heard last week on a syndicated political talk show, chilled me to the bone.
Date Posted: May 07, 2007
The Most Important Step
It has been a very long week.The victims of Monday's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech are on their way home. Their parents, families, friends and colleagues have grieved with dignity before us and now are due their privacy to continue that...
Date Posted: April 20, 2007