Author Archives: Bill Halamandaris

I was working at the Senate when Martin Luther King was killed. The day after his assassination I heard a United States Senator say, “It’s about time someone killed that son-of-a bitch.” This remark was made in a public place. … Continue reading →

At our house, we never knew who would be joining us for dinner. My mother lost her mother at an early age. All of her life she carried vivid memories of being passed from hand to hand, relative to distant … Continue reading →

When I wrote to tell JoAnn Cayce she had been nominated for a national award, JoAnn responded:  “I don’t know this fellow that’s nominated me – he happened to be the mayor of an adjacent town – and I don’t … Continue reading →

Jane Goodall’s vision for her life began to form at the age of five when she hid in a chicken coop to see if she could discover “where on a chicken was there an opening big enough for an egg … Continue reading →

Many people, myself included, have pursued happiness and pleasure in places where we know it will not be found.  It is tempting to seek the comfort of material things and indulge yourself, pursue appetites and the satisfactions of the flesh. When … Continue reading →