As the firecrackers exploded and the green curtain drew back, Christy Phan put her right hand over her heart. ...more

March 7, 2010

As the firecrackers exploded and the green curtain drew back, Christy Phan put her right hand over her heart. "This gives me chills," she said, admiring the world's largest jade Buddha, a 10-foot-tall, 4-ton statue unveiled Saturday at the Minh Dang Quang Monastery, 5607 Town 'N Country Blvd. ...more

March 6, 2010

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Thousands of people of different faiths are expected to visit the world's largest jade Buddha during a 10-day stop at a Tampa area temple. ...more

March 6, 2010

What happens when you put Muslim, Christian and Jewish women in the same room to pray for peace? ...more

March 4, 2010

The Dalai Lama called compassion the root of world peace during a second day of Florida appearances. ...more

February 27, 2010

It's time to fight for personal peace. We begin 2010 as far from world peace as ever in history. Celebrating the Prince of Peace at the end of 2009 fades as we recover from last night's welcome to the new year. We are a resolution-making people, who laugh and cry when at every year's end we admit resolution breaking. ...more

January 1, 2010

China today executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling in its first execution of a European citizen in half a century, drawing a strong condemnation from Britain's prime minister. ...more

December 28, 2009

In commenting upon President Barak Obama's "Olympic ego trip" to Copenhagen, George Will noted that Obama used the personal pronoun 26 times in 46 sentences. (In his first 41 speeches he mentioned himself 1,400 times.) ...more

November 12, 2009

In commenting upon President Barak Obama's "Olympic ego trip" to Copenhagen, George Will noted that Obama used the personal pronoun 26 times in 46 sentences. (In his first 41 speeches he mentioned himself 1,400 times.) ...more

November 11, 2009

The Visitors of "V" arrived last week, and no rodents were eaten. It might happen tonight. I don't know. It's just a hunch. ...more

November 10, 2009