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October 4, 2020
The Corrosion of Hate
It’s The Hate that’s wearing me down. This week, culminating with a late-night Trump tweet admitting he’s positive for COVID, The Hate reached new depths. I’m a dyed-in-the-Blue-wool liberal, but […]
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September 27, 2020
Reforming the Court
I posted a Twitter thread to contribute something meaningful to the bitter debate swirling around the inevitable confirmation of a replacement for recently departed American icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, […]
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September 20, 2020
Tyranny of the Minority
With the temporary return of breathable air to Northern California, last evening I was sitting on the back terrace reading a novel and feeling rather fine. This was abruptly interrupted […]
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September 13, 2020
Bad Air Day
My wife and I left our home in the Virginia Tidewater four weeks ago, trekking 3,000 miles in a Fiat 500 during a pandemic to help our daughter and son-in-law […]
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September 6, 2020
The Value of Honor
I couldn’t have written this 48 hours ago. That’s when The Atlantic story reporting that Trump called the 1,800 Marines who fell at Belleau Wood during the First World War […]
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August 30, 2020
That One Teacher
This week, I received a Facebook message from an old high school friend that saddened me. Our former American Literature and Rhetoric teacher had been killed in an auto accident. […]
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August 23, 2020
Flying in the BUFF (Part Four)
Kay-Kay and I survived our 3,000 mile cross-country odyssey from the Right Coast to the Left Coast and are pleasantly ensconced in our Airbnb—surrounded by wildfires. I mean, not closely […]
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August 16, 2020
Bad Grandpa?
[This is an encore of a post from 2019. Happy to report Goldie is now 16 months old and a total charmer, while brother Goober is a 5-year-old, headed for […]
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August 9, 2020
Go West, Old Man
Don’t know if your Nuclear Family Unit—and now Pandemic Bubble Crew—is like mine, but when my wife, Kay-Kay, and I are coming up on an automobile trip, various Piles of […]
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August 2, 2020
John Tyler’s House and Modern Memory
Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, memory and history. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the […]
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