I was in downtown Atlanta today and saw a billboard that threw me for a loop. I was sitting at a traffic light and an advertisement for a channel called Peachtree TV was bragging that on Friday night there would be an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on FREE TV. Imagine that. You can watch an …
At least once or twice a week, I see a clickbait article on Facebook trying to tell me all the things that are disappearing from our lives because millennials no longer buy or use them. There’s a certain “OK Boomer” quality to these articles, implying somehow that millennials have achieved a higher level of consciousness, …
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the moon Nokomis …”— H.W. LONGFELLOW, 1855 It has been more than 60 years since I first read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha,” and it is the flawed memory of an old man that had me believing all these years that the quote at the top of this page …
I really didn’t have any intention of writing about Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech today. I fully expected that it would be an OK speech, but it would be mild enough and with enough stumbles and gaffes that nobody would be all that excited about it. After all, under the heading of worthless …
This won’t be a particularly long post. Just some food for thought and one very basic question. When I was a kid in school and learning about civics, one thing I remember was that our justice system was intended to be slanted toward the rights of the accused. We learned that it was better to …
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What happens when one side plays by the rules and the other doesn’t? What happens when the people on one side of an issue believe they are more worthy than the other, or that they are good and the other side is evil? What happens then? You have Donald Trump’s America. There appear to be …
Back in the day when Facebook was fun, when I was still living in Southern California, I was challenged to do a list of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on me they changed my life. Dug into my soul. Music that brought me to life when I heard it. This was where …
When I first moved to Georgia in November 2010 something happened weather-wise during the first winter that showed me just how different things were here than out west. We had what was considered a terrible snowstorm. In fact, we haven’t had as much snow in 13 winters since. Two inches. You must mean two feet. …
March is not my favorite month. Far from it, in fact. Some of the worst things that have happened to me happened in March, and it was just four years ago that I had a shocking and painful loss when a close friend died unexpectedly. Brandt Heatherington was a fraternity brother of mine from Sigma …
“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor …
