by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 2, 2008 | Comedy, Politics, Reminiscences, World Views
As this Election comes to an end, I would like to share with readers why such political experiences so deeply affect me. I didn’t think anything of politics and government until Election 2000, when I was a 10 year old child. I didn’t really have a clue...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 19, 2007 | Reminiscences
Originally I intended to post this old interview on Veteran’s Day. However, since the article was misplaced until now, that has been delayed. I remember the day when the news reporter and photographer stopped by our house to do an article for The Huntsville...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2007 | Comedy, Reminiscences, World Views
As the ways of the world expand and become more complicated, things that should be sharp and clear become hazy, dull and nearly unobtrusive to some. Is the majority simply too weary to debate ancient cultural traditions that have since been commercially modernized?...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 28, 2007 | Journal, Reminiscences
I planned to include some excerpts from my old October 2001 journal this fall. That year was hectic because we had to do lots of traveling immediately after we moved to our new home due to Dad’s military work. To us children at the time it was a lot of fun. I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 4, 2007 | Reminiscences
Recently Rachel and I listened to Diana Waring’s tape True Tales: Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries. It brought back memories from seven years ago when we first listened to it… October 4, 2000 was a Wednesday – Science and History day in A Place To...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 11, 2007 | Reminiscences, World Views
“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.” ~ Henry Cabot Lodge SEPTEMBER TENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND ONE CLOSED as a happy Monday...
