Who Will Come To The Polls? [Essay by Carol Blood]

There is a disease that affects many voters across our nation. This disease is called Voter Apathy.I remember the 1972 election when eighteen year olds could finally vote. 50% of young adults ages 18 to 24 cast ballots. Compare that to current numbers such as the 2000 election where the number fell drastically to 32%. There were great efforts to encourage young adults to vote by the 2004 election however, the percentage was still only 42% who actually cast ballots. An even more sobering number is how many of our young adults do not vote when it is a non-presidential year. In recent years that number has plummeted to less than half of the 42% who voted in the 2004 election.

HOW TO MAKE A BABY [Short Story by Robert Levin]

I was, I suppose you could say, in a PREpartum depression.

It started when my wife, Connie, decided it was time to have a baby. I was
thirty-one and she was twenty-eight, a circumstance which I reminded her in
my argument against the idea was no cause for alarm. But after she'd voiced
her ambition--and thereby made it real to herself--the achievement of
motherhood became an obsession for her and she would not leave me alone
about it. Finally, after several months, my reluctance to enlist in her
project compelled her to resort to a not so veiled threat: "Steven," she
said. "Either we have a baby now or I'm going to leave you."