by Jan Turrentine | Apr 23, 2004 | Opinion
The extended family seated around the dinner table chatters about the day’s events. A middle-aged man recently released from prison where he served time for fraud expresses cautious optimism about a job interview. A woman recovering from substance abuse tells...
by Jan Turrentine | Apr 16, 2004 | Opinion
The college group in a conservative Southern church faced a dilemma. One of the young women in the group was unmarried and pregnant. The child’s father had denied his responsibility and refused to marry her. The young woman came from a family of modest means in...
by Jan Turrentine | Apr 9, 2004 | Opinion
People often stare at Darryl Kramer, and children regularly ask her lots of questions. An achondroplasia dwarf, Kramer is 3′ 9″ tall. Her condition means that her limbs are very short. Kramer and her family live in Canandaigua, N.Y. Her husband and son are...
by Jan Turrentine | Apr 2, 2004 | Opinion
At the age of 4, Joshua Bell stretched rubber bands around the handles of his dresser drawers so that he could pluck out tunes like he’d heard his mother play on the piano. When his parents discovered what he’d done, they gave him his first violin, a...
by Jan Turrentine | Mar 26, 2004 | Opinion
Take a walk down the hallways at MCI’s corporate headquarters and you’re apt to be greeted with posters that challenge: “Do the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do.” Employee badges also carry the “do the right...
