by Michael Carlon | Nov 30, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture, Self Awareness
I was very close with my maternal grandmother. My twin brother suffers from asthma and was in and out of the hospital when we were little. He absorbed much of my mother’s attention and, as a result, my grandmother would drive west to Plantation, FL from her condo on...
by Michael Carlon | Nov 24, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture
The Godfather is one of my favorite books primarily because of Don Corleone; a character whose sense of family and honor is shadowed by his own brutality. It is hard to argue that “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse,” is not one of the best...
by Michael Carlon | Nov 19, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture
This weekend I took the kids to see the most recent adaptation of A Christmas Carol. It is one of my favorite stories primarily because it deals with the very simple, yet powerful, theme of repentance. As rich as he is, Scrooge realizes that he has lived his life...
by Michael Carlon | Nov 19, 2009 | Editorials
President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the majority leaders in both houses of Congress are not the first group of people to realize that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been preaching on this...
by Michael Carlon | Nov 8, 2009 | Editorials
Originally printed in the Nov 12 Edition of The Stamford AdvocateLike many readers of the Stamford Advocate, I have been following the back and forth on ability grouping in our City’s public school. Both sides use their own biases to select data to support their...
