Sunday Newscape Magazine

"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger." Ralph Waldo Emerson

If not for courage we would not move. We would closet ourselves in our homes and watch through the window while other people succeed and fail and have a life. Sadly, many do just that. With doors dead-bolted and answering machines screening. Sequestered and safe. Or so it seems.

Not to bring up old news to some of you, but if you recall a few months ago in my column I eulogized a dear friend who passed away. The hardest part was reading a letter at the service from my friend’s oldest daughter Amanda. This highly intelligent high school senior not only offered the most powerful set of words, but understood that the little things in life mean more than anything.

When I was twenty-two years old, I met a beautiful blonde hair woman named Christine. She had the face and body of a movie star. She was the most beautiful woman that I had ever made love to up to that point in my life.

Things may have changed in beautiful Amsterdam since I was there two years ago.

I understand that, since then, Amsterdam city officials have launched an effort to drastically curtail and regulate the activities in the famous Amsterdam “red light district."

Stanford, California - Details and descriptions of more than 4,000 documents on or about Martin Luther King Jr. will go public when Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute launches a new online database on May 18. An additional 4,000 document records will be available by year's end.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the Pacific coast between Mexico and Chile where such rafts carried goods between the great civilizations of the Andes and Mesoamerica as long as a millennium ago, the replica raft was floated in the Charles River basin.