6/1/71
The memory of my college graduation on this day 50 years ago still burns bright in my mind. Packed in a football stadium on a typically...
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It Takes A Village
Adam Toledo's death in Chicago may be the latest in a series of police-involved fatalities that have twisted our nation into knots, but...
MLB Drops the Ball
I find it curious that Major League Baseball decided to pull this year's All Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia's new election law....
Aftermath: Dispatches to Doggy Heaven
Dear A.J. (Feb. 18, 2021): It's been two weeks - two tough weeks -- since you have been gone. I want to apologize for not writing sooner,...
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
Hear that, Bruce Springsteen? Also, I have a feeling we will never get back there. This is a nation probably permanently broken, thanks...
No time to wallow in the mire
Oh, yeah, baby, light my fire. By now, we can all say - even spell - incendiary. The word of the moment is all on our minds, thanks to...
The inhumanity is palpable
The throngs of poor souls crossed borders to be there. Now, they try to find comfort on those cold, hard floors. Their inhumane hosts do...
Sometmes, atheism ain't so bad
Oh, blasphemy! you say. Nope, just my realistic view of political labels. For years now and over a bountiful number of difficult...
The Other End of the Leash
He walks slowly now, his hind legs kind of skipping and dragging a little. His senses have dulled - deafness and slowly failing eyesight...
Fractured Fiction (a work in progress)
Tripoli picked up the book from an inconveniently dusty corner of the closet in her grandfather’s home. The room was dark and the book...
Where are these heroes?
All through this pandemic, one thing is clear – heroes are all around us. Doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, paramedics,...
It's a new year, so time for a new way
Since Facebook seems to be a swirl of mostly nasty politics and narcissism, I am, for the time being, choosing not to get caught up in...
On a swing and a prayer
Images of Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run to win the first game of the 1988 World Series against the Oakland A's flicker across my screen...
A Phrase Redefined
With all the anger over our current debate about statues, it may be time to take a new look at the way we consider those monuments....
Summer of Shove
The title here is not original. Writer Michael Tomasky coined that phrase in 2009 in a N.Y. Times article outlining the aggressive agenda...
A day late....but make it count
This past Sunday, June 21, was Father's Day and I always try to post a pic or more of my Dad. He's been gone now for 14 years and the...
Introducing: Host City Confidential
This new post is the first of many to be created and seen in 2020. It is dedicated to looking at the good, bad and ugly of a community...
Getting Schooled
April 4, 2019 We are getting our daily dose of what happens when you bribe school officials to get your lil' darlins enrolled. Media...
Off The Top
Looking back at late March, 2019... - When can we please see members of Congress pass laws instead of trading insults? - Kind of hard to...
A Not Ready For Prime Time Candidate
Beto O'Rourke has come crashing into out lives, complete with a tall, lean stature, a flowing shock of just-the-right-touch-of- gray hair...
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