by robert maniscalco | Aug 3, 2022 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
Violence can no longer be put forth as a solution to our problems. As the President recently said in his Philidelphia address, “it is not normal.” It should not become a part of the political discourse. It has always been the way in this country. But...
by robert maniscalco | Apr 10, 2022 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, World View
Welcome to Psalm Punday! Today, we live in a world of guns and violins. Personally, I don’t condone violins. I’m rather partial to violas. Seriously, thanks for having me here at the All Souls Waccamaw Unitarian Universalist Church. We tried this once before. And then...
by robert maniscalco | Feb 12, 2022 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
Plausible Truths In light of the trucker protests, essentially weaponizing their trucks and the anti-vax movement at large, my measured conclusion is that ignorance is a fatal disease. Not getting vaccinated may kill you and others. As we pray for the future of a...
by robert maniscalco | Dec 1, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
I am so proud of Congresswoman Debbie Dingell. Many of you may not know it, but her mother was married to my late father for many years. So she was my step sister, in what is now another lifetime ago. Now, I watch from afar, in great admiration. She is on the...
by robert maniscalco | Nov 16, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
My son’s friend, Daniel, called me a racist the other day because I made a joke about immigration. I said something “clever” about Mexican warlords and immigrants. I corrected him condescendingly and said somewhat dismissively, “no, I’m...
by robert maniscalco | Sep 10, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, World View
A Brave Front Most people know me as a go getter, whatever that is. I’m a doer. I am always trying to make something happen, always hustling. But years of negative messaging from myself and others, in the form of CSA and verbal trauma, and the resulting anxiety...
