Personal Essay

Personal Essay

To Change Your Life – Change Your Beliefs

BY
William Frederick

Have you ever taken time to examined your personal beliefs? Your belief system is how you view the world. What ...

Personal Essay

The Awe-Inspiring Power of One

BY
Jill Chapin

We are all too aware of the dire consequences of how just one person can manipulate an entire population with ...

Personal Essay

Travel Serendipity

BY
Janet Call

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.” These words of celebrated Lowcountry author Pat ...

Personal Essay

What it Means to be an American

BY
Jill Chapin

I had a chat with a newly minted citizen, who undoubtedly knows more about our constitution and how our government ...

Personal Essay

The Euchre Experience 

BY
Janet Call

Membership in OPPE (Old People Playing Euchre) is something its Charlottesville, Virginia members accept as a badge of honor. After ...

Personal Essay

So We Got a Tenth Supreme Court Justice After All

BY
Jill Chapin

A Texas district judge just suspended the FDA’s 23 years-long approval of the abortion pill, Mifepristone – for the entire ...

Personal Essay

Olfactory Journey

BY
Janet Call

In the often frantic pace of modern life, with its ubiquitous technology and uncertainty, it is easy to miss the ...