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Teaching children at home has had amazing results for centuries. Here is a short list of some home schooled students; Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Mozart, Edison. Still today, in spite of the rapid growth of homeschooling, there are some people ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Leonardo da Vinci,  Abraham Lincoln

The Moving Wall

Last week I took my family to The Moving Wall. That’s the half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The name “Moving Wall” plays on the word “moving”. Yes, it is mobile so it can travel from town to town. But it also evokes ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  10 Nov 2009

Right thing + Wrong time = Bad thing

From a Church Bulletin: “Women’s Group Rummage Sale: The ladies have cast off clothing of all kinds. They may be seen in the church basement this Friday.” It is written that when human beings were young, we were naked and not ashamed. Shame is the ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  5 Nov 2009

Some thoughts on All Hallows Eve

Consider this weekend’s festivities which celebrate the macabre; the ghoulish “things that go bump in the night.” Some people enjoy the adrenaline rush that results from a fright as long as the fear is imaginary. Few of us intend to actually kill or be ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  28 Oct 2009

Extrordinary and ordinary inspiration

I am sympathetic with the scholar who wrote that sentence. We pedestrian writers struggle with every sentence to find the right word or phrase. We make countless choices in everything we write. It is only natural that this scholarly author would ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  14 Oct 2009

Will Obama meet the challenge?

I am worried about Afghanistan. I‘m not worried because the violence is increasing and General McChrystal says he needs more troops to pacify the area. Those things are reasonable and should have been expected. No, what worries me are the signals ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden

I know you understand what you think I said...

Do you see what that means? Since the parties have diametrically opposed goals, the only way to get them to sign a piece of paper is if each side thinks the paper says something different. The creative part comes from the diplomat who convinces each ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Neville Chamberlain

It's a funny thing, isn't it?

It was Wednesday evening and death was close. Family had been called and they were coming from miles away. I had already said my goodbyes. I even sang for Dad one last time that afternoon. There would be a lot of people in the house soon and I went ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  25 Sep 2009

Potty mouth pollution

(There is an old story about a preacher who never, ever uttered the least curse word... but he did spit. And where his spit landed they said "the grass never grew again." I was thinking about that as I wrote this article) Trying to shed a few pounds, I’ ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  15 Sep 2009

The eighth anniversary of 9/11

My recollections on this eighth anniversary of 9-11 are not so unique, but here they are. We were beginning a day of normal activity. The kids were starting school (we homeschool) and I was preparing to leave the house when a friend called and told us ...

From KEN BERGGREN, Brutally Honest,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon

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