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Antiques, Friends and Patriots
Antiques, friends and partriots These three things might immediately not seem to have anything in common. Antique: a collectible object that has a high value because of its considerable age Friend: a person whom one knows and with whom one … Continue reading
Lent, Life, and Liberty
I have been re-reading a lot of my recent posts, email rants, etc. and have decided that for Lent I am going to give up (or at least strive to give up) overanalyzing, fixating and reacting to the events of … Continue reading
February 10, 2021 – Sweetness
Watching the Super Bowl with our good friends caused me to rethink the topic of my post this time around. I had planned to post something more serious related to current events in the nation, but I’ve decided to take … Continue reading
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before…
Author’s Note: The topic of free speech and media (social and otherwise) has been on my mind a lot lately. I am concerned that the actions we are seeing in squelching dissenting opinions, creating algorithmic echo chambers and replacing open … Continue reading
January 24, 2021 – Carpe Annos Singulos (Seize the Year!)
It’s funny how everything sounds cooler in a foreign language, doesn’t it? The theme of this post deals with making the most of this year. Last year had so many ups and downs, and for many, more downs than ups. … Continue reading
A New Day
With today being Inauguration Day, I thought it would be appropriate to write about new days. Today is a new day, historically, for our nation with President Biden becoming the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris becoming … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year?
Well, I fully intended on posting this over the weekend, but, have needed time to process all of the churn and to “moderate my content” so as not to run afoul of Facebook, Twitter, et al. Time will tell if … Continue reading
April 18, 2018 – 51 and still a child
I learned some things about myself this week, that, frankly, after 50+ years, I had not really considered. I guess I should put this in context, in order to make it make better sense. The past several months have been … Continue reading
Week One – Welcome to 2018!
2017 is in the rear view mirror and 2018 has officially kicked off with bitter cold, snow days, and a HUGE amount of email and tasks to respond to from the holiday season. As much as I enjoy the holidays, … Continue reading
December 29/30/31 – Happy New Year
So, as you may have noticed we have had difficulty posting over the past couple of weeks. Part of this is schedule-induced, some memory-induced and some technology-induced, but the most accurate reason is that we have been so involved in … Continue reading