Newbury

If you ever go to England, do me a favor: Do not go to London for several days and say “I’ve seen England.”  No, you will only have succeeded in being “to” England and in “seeing London.”  To see London and claim to have seen England is akin to saying that a European traveler, after [...]

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Proud to be an American

(Imagine Lee Greenwood’s song in the background as you read this)
I am an American citizen by birth.  The fact that I exist has some basis in the slave trade in this country’s youth–a practice that brought scores of my ancestors here to toil, torn apart from home and family.  Their sweat and tears contributed to [...]

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This Day in History

It was an uneventful day in the lives of most people.  President Eisenhower was winding down his administration and the country was ramping up for the November election.  John F Kennedy would defeat Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th President of the United States.  But months before those historical events would be played [...]

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The World Liked Us and Looked Up to Us

Author’s Note:  This was my first foray into the world of political blogging and in looking back at it this evening (20090503), I realized it had been read only once since its writing.  It was probably my wife who read it.  So I thought I would rename it and see if it got more attention.  [...]

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*Shakespeare Actually Wrote…

As You Like It
“All the world ’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts” – (Act II, Scene VII).

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Life’s a Story…

Is Life a Story?  I suggest that it is, for we speak of life in terms of “turning a page” or “entering a new chapter”.  The book of our life is being written every day.  Some books are finished prematurely, while others have chapter after chapter.  Well, life is a story and in keeping with [...]

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Honesty

The day was an unusual one for me–I had the opportunity to hear some of the testimony before Congress from Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee.  At times, the verbal exchanges were tense, even between Congressional members.  But one thing stood out–the number of times that Congress stated that someone in the room [...]

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Faith

BTW, here’s a bonus post for the day.  The other day, I was contemplating some challenges in my life, some of which are sure to bring changes, and not always ones that would be pleasent.  I remembered an old acrostic for Fear… False Evidence Appearing Real.  This isn’t one that I particularly like and I try [...]

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Hello, World!

Web log… seems easy enough to contract it down to “blog”.  I’ve been aware of blogging for quite some time through my involvement in the IT community as well as through my teen and pre-teen daughters!  A few years ago, it was all about Xanga and more recently, MySpace and Facebook.  It seemed as if [...]

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