Of course, she’d kill me if she knew in advance that I was going to write this (which is why I didn’t tell her in advance), but I went out to dinner with her last night, along with her mother and father and...
Just before Christmas 2023, I embarked on a sojourn that I thought, at the time, would only last a couple of weeks. Ten months later, I am barely beginning to find my way down the last stretch of road toward home. The...
This seems like just as good a time as any to discuss what has been going on behind the scenes in recent months. Ever since I set this website up several years ago, I had intended to use it as a general confluence...
As Mark Twain once said, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I’m not aware, of course, that anyone actually suggested that I had swan dived” off this Mortal coil but I like the...
Editor’s note: This was first published back on Christmas Eve of 2009. The world was a dramatically different place back then. Accordingly, it has been nuanced over the years since its first publication. The message it...
Though certainly not a commercial success by any means, my journey in putting together my first novel – “Unwashed Philosophy: A User’s Guide To Our Imperfect Union” – (available via Kindle...
A fairly well-known proverb, wrongly attributed to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, says that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Wikipedia (not always terribly reliable) tells us this quote...
I was born in Washington DC and grew up in a Maryland suburb just over the line. All of my extended family lived up in the Harpers Ferry part of the state, out in The Boondocks, and despite my growing up a city...
…sits down and orders a shot of Jack and whatever cheap beer they have on tap. Dispensing with Jack, he takes a baby sip of the beer to rinse the palate and, like he always does, he takes in the crowd not by...