I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.

I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions.

The music began and he started singing and gyrating, so much that the flatbed and truck were bouncing up off the ground. I had never seen or heard anything like this before in my life.

At the appropriate time, Elvis' pink Cadillac arrived on the football field and made a slow trip in front of everyone in the bleachers. The top was down, and he was sitting on the top of the back seat waving at us as he went by.

It was so exciting, a real thrill, and certainly an experience I shall never forget, even though it happened 50 years ago.

It's one thing to read about the immortality of the soul, but it's another to see your own life flash before your eyes.