Sunday, April 28, 2024
Dan and Kathy Shaw near the summit of Mount Sinai, believed to be the location where God gave the 10 Commandments to Moses. I’m not sure when I decided to share this trip with others. I’ve traveled a lot, but I’ve never felt it necessary to schedule a room and […]
I asked my mother recently if I could see the letters my father wrote home from World War II. "Sorry," she said. "I finally got tired of moving them around and threw them away." "Oh, no. Why didn’t you give them to me?" "I didn’t know you wanted them." I […]
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers founded upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all me are created equal, President Lincoln said.
I’ve had a taste of Study Abroad, and I want more. I tagged along on MCCC’s 2011 Study Abroad trip to Central Europe – 20 days in Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. It was an experience of a lifetime for me, and confirmed that I want to be […]
Community colleges always have faced the question – do students get as good a start on their college education as they would at four-year universities? It’s a natural concern. After all, Monroe County Community College doesn’t have ivy-colored walls, famous lecturers, or Greek letters on big houses. There’s no championship […]
In the shade under a hundreds-year-old olive tree, with a breeze blowing from the nearby Aegean Sea, the Greek sun loses its bite. You can sit back and let the marble and granite ruins, spread in a park-like setting across the hillside, blur in your mind, allowing your subconscious to […]
