2021

I’d like to be able to tell you how it happened, but I can’t. And I spent far too much time searching the internet for the answer. I guess I should just tell you the thing and be done with it. One of the entries in today’s historical look, goes as follows: 1898 — First […]

  This has been one of the most shameful moments in American History.

And then there was light. From the very beginning, we are reminded: Life is full of both darkness and light. They are forever trading punches, back and forth. The earth spins on her axis to reveal this very thing. One minute the sun is here. The next minute, not. In our lives, in our days,

The United States has a problem with guns. We are the world leader when it comes to those privately owned guns, with 120 guns per 100 people nationwide. European countries have far less. For instance, England had five guns per 100 people. There are more deaths per year in the United States by firearms than

I hadn’t seen it in a long time. But when we visited Hawaii a few years back, there it was again, bigger than life. SPAM was everywhere. In everything imaginable — SPAM sandwiches, SPAM candy, SPAM jerky. You name it, and SPAM was a part of it. Growing up, we didn’t have it very often.

For the duration of my childhood, we had an old upright piano in our basement. It was turquoise. I don’t know when it became turquoise, but that is the only color I ever remember it being. Moving a piano into a basement is no easy task, I would imagine. The story goes, they had to

Flags can be controversial. They are, typically, pieces of cloth with designs on them. And these designs are representative of a group of somebodies or somethings. Most often, these flags are used as national symbols or emblems of institutions. But their meanings can go in all sorts of directions, and those flying flags are frequently