I have found a wonderful story from India at the following link: http://www.yimag.org/mkm/pilgrimage.html I have changed only a few words and phrases here and...
A young single mother writes of her loneliness and despair. She feels discouraged in her attempts to find a partner. Here is my reply: I wish I had some magic...
I have been corresponding for several years now with Shravya, who was raised in Andra Pradesh and speaks Telugu, but who currently lives in Chennai in Tamil...
Phil Silvers was a popular television comedian during the 1950s and 60s. His daughter, Laury Silvers, through a serious of unusual incidents, converted to...
http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2002/rama.htm The Importance of Rama In Arabian Culture By CTR Wilson, Saidabad, Hyderabad 500 020 The words Ra...
Here is a link to download all my writings of the past nine years as zipped files. I still need to add some things, but this is pretty complete. Nothing lasts...
One reader asks: Sitaram, I am curious, do you see a significant difference between the following two statements? 1) Treat others as you would like to be...
(posted today at http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions and also at http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic1080.php ) Yesterday, I watched an...
My old Palm M-120 started to have strange problems synchronizing with the various desktops that I use. Today, I purchased a Palm Z22 for $99 at Staples. So...
Regarding the spirit of author censorship, and books on trial: I think it was John Barth that I was reading, perhaps his non-fiction collection "Further...
For many years now, I have written on the Internet about certain topics, some of which are halakic in nature. You might find what I posted just now to be of...
Here is this morning's internet dialogue in Yahoo chat between myself and a professor of folklore in South India, posted with his permission. I have done only...
One reader responds: Wow! Sitaram! You put so much thought into your post that I hate to be such a spoil sport- almost. Saved from what? From being the animals...
posted at http://progressiveislam.org posted at http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions Thanks, Laury, for the link to Dr. Godlas's website. I visited his...
I met with a special young woman, age 11, yesterday, special because she is a distant relative through marriage She showed me her myspace blog and mentioned...
(posted just now at progressiveislam.org) Rabbi Abraham Heschel, in his two volume work on "The Prophets" of the Old Testament Bible, wrote, "few are guilty,...
Gandhi Quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mohandasga164233.html A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. A...
Sorry that I have not been able to post for some time, as I have become busy with work. Today, I was thinking about Lot's daughters, in the wilderness with ...
The winter celebrations are pretty closely in synch this year; Hannukah ends on the same night that winter begins, which happens to be just three days before...
Following links at progressiveislam.org , I came to this interesting site http://www.mernissi.net/gallery/sindbad.html And found this inspiring translation: ...
One Seventh-Day Adventist friend of mine, a woman in her 60s, told me that on the day that the World Trade Center was destroyed, NO JEWS reported for work....
Myspace Category: Religion and Philosophy Some religions see God as so sovereign that they reason that each person must be predestined and foreordained to be...
I am logged in under a different email address. My apologies for not having posted in so long. Most of my activity now is at myspace.com/literarydiscussions I...
VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AND IRC CHAT CHANNELS http://www.csun.edu/~webteach/mirc/whatis.html Today, I had a BRILLIANT idea for how St. John's College in Annapolis ...