I saw on the news that Toys R Us filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy. I’m no financial man, big business surely isn’t anything I have any experience with,  but it was reported they are 5 billion dollars in debt !… Continue reading

 Is it necessary to celebrate everything we agree with and condemn those things we don’t ? I read where the Congress has asked the President to condemn Nazi’s and white supremacists. Does that really require a document ? I mean… Continue reading

 I looked at the calendar and was reminded. On this day there was a birth, a birth four years before my own. On this day in 1949 my brother Dan arrived. I’ve known him all my life ! Well, that… Continue reading

 I made a few attempts at writing about something else. Those attempts were met with a wall. That wall is grief. I grieve not for what was lost, for memories remain, I grieve for the future. For events that may… Continue reading

 This morning I am deeply saddened. My sister in law Joan has gone to be with the lord. The sorrow is for myself, my wife and all of those that knew and loved her. Joan feels no sorrow, no pain… Continue reading

 I cut the grass yesterday and noticed it for the first time , fall grass. Do you know what fall grass looks like ? I can see the slight brown tint in that growing grass, it is the seed for… Continue reading

 I was watching this hokey series on Netflix called Iron Fist. I just started watching it and so am not that acquainted with the whole premise of the show. Anyway the main character is talking and says, ” our purpose… Continue reading

 I read another article about a young lady losing her life to drugs. It was the same as all the rest, young, talented, full of life and then wasted on a high. I remarked then how I felt we needed… Continue reading

 Yesterday marked a solemn anniversary. I was gratified to see that even in the midst of the chaos and turmoil of two hurricanes it wasn’t forgotten. It is something I will never forget, akin to what my parents generation feel… Continue reading

 I watched Charlie Rose interview Steve Bannon on sixty minutes last evening. In the end I was left with one impression, Charlie Rose has lost all sense of impartiality. HIs dislike for Trump was on full display, as was his… Continue reading