Yesterday I decided to mow the lawn. Turns out the mower needed gas. Well sometimes I just ride the lawn tractor up to the gas station. That is what I did yesterday. It was early in the morning, schools… Continue reading

  I find myself struck by the ambivalence of time. Fifty years ago I graduated high school, thirty years ago my father passed away, twenty eight years ago I retired from the Navy. And time just keeps going on, uninterrupted,… Continue reading

  Slavery ended as a result of the civil war. That’s what we are taught. It isn’t exactly the truth however. Whereas at the time of the civil war, the late rebellion as those with southern sympathies will often call… Continue reading

  The choices we make will ultimately define our lives. That I believe wholeheartedly, and it is a lesson I wish could be taught to children. But youth can not be taught that lesson, only time can accomplish that. The… Continue reading

  Are our highest standards becoming the lowest common denominator? That’s the impression I have been getting lately. It has been going by many names, progressive and liberal being the two frontrunners. What is really being promoted is a lack… Continue reading

  Here it is July the fourth, the day we celebrate our Independence from Great Britain. Just a few weeks back we were celebrating Junetenth, the first year that was an official holiday. I did receive some negative feedback on… Continue reading

  It has been said we are living in the information age. I would have to agree with that statement. Information is more readily available today than any time in history. We truly have become a global community. Information exchanged… Continue reading

  Signals and signs are all around us. Most recently it is all this virtue signaling that has grabbed the most attention. A great deal of that is what we used to call climbing up on the soap box. I… Continue reading

 Here it is July. It’s my birth month! Guess I should start the celebration. I’ve noticed in recent years we have gone from having a birthday, to having a birthday weekend, and birth week. Why not a birth month? July… Continue reading

 Is it realistic to expect the ideal? In my opinion that is the problem we are facing these days. You can call it by many names, woke seems to be the current term bantered about, to mean just that. I… Continue reading