Rosa Parks was the inspiration... simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and simple child of God who refused to let anybody or anything force her to compromise her spirit.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

They want them to act like a partner, but they want to drive the cost focus to the point where the providers are not making a profit. And that's only a bad thing for the client.

As she sits in isolation, pondering her very existence, distant yet deliberate feelings of alienation in this backwards realm, leave her marooned.