Lost in this week’s spectacular yet inevitable revelations that Wells Fargo illicitly opened millions of unauthorized customer accounts is the company’s illegal treatment of people living with disabilities.Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $16 million in compensation and fines in 2011 in a settlement for denying access to facilities, products and services to people with […]
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If you have read my book Shells: Sustained by Grace Within the Tempest you already have an intro to the absurdity of power wheelchair pricing and insurance coverage. With a couple of years more down the road, so to say, I have an update that tips the absurdometer beyond full.My original power wheelchair was covered by private
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What Makes a Day “Good”? It is such a common sentiment. “Have a good day.” Comedian George Carlin had a field day with this one, wondering in many ways how one could measure a day’s “good-ness” and how dare someone saddle you with the burden of their expectations. “What if I don’t feel like doing anything
Children are a most precious gift. We, as a nation, have a moral imperative to protect and nurture our children, to educate them, and to ensure that they have a safe environment in which to grow. To this end, our states have enacted laws to protect our children from being raised in homes where parents
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Faith Lutheran Church, Appleton, WI “Misspelled” words are to make my machine pronounce words correctly.Bible quotes are from the Common English Bible. Good morning! Can everyone hear me? How do you like my electronic voice? Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Steve Heronemus, and it is such
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Text of my message to Bethlehem Lutheran Church Lenten Vespers Service, March 16, 2016. Our theme for Lent was “Plunging into Deeper Discipleship”. Hello, my name is Steve Heronemus.Life is full of plunges. Some we choose to take, while others catch us like the trap door in a Looney Tunes cartoon. My trap door came more
Sermon from April 3, 2016 at Carthage College. Text based on Psalm 118:14-29. Spelling “errors” are to get my machine to pronounce words correctly. Grace and peace to you in the name of Christ our savior. My name is Steve Heronemus and it is a joy to be with you today.Let’s see what we picked
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A classically trained, virtuoso, superlative showman whose first four albums were all top-20 sellers. An acclaimed rock star who rejected that accolade, who never listened to rock music, who preferred jazz and classical. A composer of symphonies, piano concertos, movie soundtracks, and legendary rock epics. Keith Emerson is dead.Emerson, who mastered as many as a dozen
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Let’s get this over with at the top. Alfie Boe is the best musical theatre tenor. I could wax on about breath control, pitch accuracy, diction, and tone, but, whatever. Only one word is needed: Perfection.I realize I’m late in writing this, for which I can only plead a lack of words to describe the
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Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” is not an action-adventure sci-fi popcorn flick. It is, in the best science fiction literary tradition, a thoughtful look at the human condition.Scarlett Johansson’s alien character, driving around Scotland in a van, is on a metaphorical journey as well. With each encounter, each stop, she acquires a human trait of