Barack and Michelle Obama are role models to be emulated.  Because we love and admire them so much for their inspiration, let’s turn the word Obama into a verb.  When we think of hard working, never giving up, succeeding, achieving goals, winning, and doing it with hon...

Rain, floods, and the promise of more rain did not deter us.  My comrades and I were determined to see the Omaha performances of Hamilton at the Orpheum Theater.  We were not disappointed.  The performance was spectacular.  The music, the dancing, and the electrifying...

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead was an intriguing read but did not help much in the lives of our members.  So much in our world has been revealed that has made us suspicious of everybody and everything.

Some were suspicious even of the Book Club Bag and its content...

Time did not allow me to articulate, during the podcast, my greatest take away from “Russian Roulette”, for which history is unfolding right in our face. While we are constantly witnessing history being made, I thought Obama’s presidency would have been my greatest eye...

Adia Brightman always wanted to be a teacher.

As a child, her bedroom was set up like a classroom, with a chalkboard, a small table and chairs, school supplies and stuffed animals. When friends visited they always played school. Adia was the teacher and she emulated her...

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Greetings Exoteric Roundtable Commentators,

I want to thank you for sending me the Sound Cloud link 20th Century-style. After listening to it in the wee hours of this morning, I think I’m gonna need more beer. But...

The voice, that powerful voice!  All those around Aretha Franklin knew she had a voice like no other. Behind the powerful voice was a gentle soul and kindness of heart.  She did not seek notoriety.  She gave of herself to others. In a street interview yesterday, a man...

The Exoteric Book Club had a great discussion about the Room by Emma Donoghue.  The book was an excellent depiction of the plight of a woman abducted for sexual purposes, with no concern for human decency, and kept in a garden shed in the back yard for 7 years.  She wa...

What an inspiration the royal wedding had on Omaha, NE, artist Edna Statham.  Her 5 foot x 2 foot vernacular art piece depicting Meghan Markle’s wedding dress with the 16 foot cathedral veil is positively magnificent and thought provoking.  As the dress is viewed from...

Cathy Hughes, a wealthy woman, accompanied by friends, family and associates, chauffeured in a stately black town car with black tinted windows, was humble, and wholeheartedly appreciative of the recognition received from the people of her home town.

Hughes, one of the...