Editorial

I t was one of the most awesome experiences of my childhood.

E very now and again, both during and after his two-term presidency, Bill Clinton espoused sound immigration thoughts that focused on the nation’s best interests. Most recently, Clinton, without naming Joe Biden, took direct aim at the sitting president’s open border fiasco.

I t is incredibly frightening to receive a notification that your child’s school is under lockdown.

P erhaps it’s partly because my mother owns a huge antique desk from Milky Way Farm (the former estate of Franklin C. Mars, founder of Mars Candies), but I pay keen attention to the annual flurry of “filler” news items about Halloween candy.

“W ere you raised in a barn?” I never had the legendary Mrs. Montgomery as a teacher; but she was a senior class adviser and I needed her input on a school program script, so I made the rookie mistake of assuming her wide-open door meant I could forego the formality of knocking.

S t. Francis would probably have made most of us uncomfortable. He’s perhaps both the most well-known and most domesticated saint. His love for God and God’s creation has made him a secular patron for pets. But his radical love of God and insistence on poverty sparked renewal in a way that should unsettle our lives.

Simi Valley, California — “ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”