by Carol A. Josel | Jun 16, 2022 | Articles, Quotable Quotes, Uncategorized
There’s something about a good quote. Some resonate and stay with us for a long time, others make us nod in agreement—or not—while others make us smile at their simple truths. Among my favorites… ** “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your...
by Carol A. Josel | May 25, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, Making News, Quotable Quotes
Back in post-Civil War 1868, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic General John A. Logan declared May 30th a Memorial Day “for the purpose of strewing flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during...
by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Quotable Quotes
Back in 1949, Mental Health America made May Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and understanding. Attitudes have certainly changed/improved since then, but all is not well nowadays, not at all. Indeed, one headline after another speaks to our...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 27, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes
In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he tells about when, as a young Jewish concentration camp prisoner, he was taken from a concentration camp to sit at a dying German soldier’s bedside. He listens as the soldier confesses to helping herd hundreds of...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 26, 2022 | Articles, Quotable Quotes
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Winston Churchill, May 15, 2020 Holocaust Remembrance Day begins at sundown on April 27 and ends at nightfall on the 28th in recognition of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives—1-1/2 of them...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 11, 2022 | Academics, Articles, Helpful Resources, Parenting, Quotable Quotes
Right off the bat: I’m Armenian—bless the Kardashians for giving the country name recognition—and fit the stereotype to a tee: olive skin, dark brown eyes and hair, and the proverbial big nose. Oh, old now and gray-haired. One summer, my family spent two weeks...
