Let’s admit the fact that the stay-at-home order related to the COVID-19 virus made everyone quite impatient, restless, upset and any other negative feeling you can think of.
I was reminded by historian Dr. Philip Jenkins, Baylor University, that pandemics and plagues were a normal occurrence in ancient and not so ancient times.
What if Mark Twain were around today to run for president?
The higher up you are in government, the tougher the crisis management job.
Over the past two weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper and local officials have imposed a regulatory regime of increasing severity on North Carolinians.
April 1 … clear wonderful morning … members of the world dilemma think tank down at the Mule Barn coffee shop looked around.
“Anyone seen Dud this morning?”
Maybe you have heard the story of how the disciple Simon Peter received the nickname “Cephas” (Peter), which means rock.
But did you know his given Hebrew name, Simon, means listen?
Profiteering from a crisis is nothing new.
While speaking on the phone with the head of a local government department the other way, words were uttered that hit me like a slap to the face.
Our environment today seems to be living in unnecessary fear.