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We've Been Here Before
I was 15 when Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. All in all, 1968 was quite the year. The assassinations of King and of Robert F....
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The Maoris and Charlie Kirk
Okay, so there's a lot I could post (and plan to) that's more important than this, but having visited New Zealand and our lovely Kiwi...
If You Have Something Good to Say, Say It While You Can
Charlie Kirk was on the list for my Heroes series , along with many others I haven't yet written about. Now anything I write is an...
The Dolls of My Childhood
I didn't play a lot with dolls as a child, nor with trucks either. I had both, and enjoyed both, along with sundry other toys: blocks,...
Paid Protesters? Been There, Done That
When you see a crowd of people cheering or jeering on a college campus, or in the city streets, do you ever wonder how many of the...
Adventures with Gemini
Microsoft's Copilot AI, which I have enjoy experimenting with, has changed its user interface to one which I find difficult and annoying...
Grace Update!
No news has generally been good news on the Grace front. There have been some minor challenges, but when we saw her this summer, she was...
Wisdom from Miss Read
This excerpt from Village Diary by Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint) captures both my frustration with the disservice our...
Was It Just a Publicity Stunt After All?
I've been watching the Cracker Barrel brouhaha with some amusement. Not that it concerns me directly: Despite having lived here for 40...
The Holidays of My Childhood
Having lived through more than seven decades of holidays, I decided it would be of interest (to me, if no one else) to consider how the...
Elementary School Aspirations, 1926
I found the following list in in The Art of Manliness , a publication I rarely read, but have respect for, and not just because their...
How Do You Decide What to Write?
"How do you decide what to write?" I know that other writers have been asked this and similar questions, and I don't speak for anyone...
The Power of a Hug
This research comes from Carnegie Mellon University , so it must be good, right? In these days, as the cracks in our system...
Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025
Tom Lehrer didn't quite make it to his 100th birthday, and I'm sure he could have written a song about that. I discovered him when I...
The Solution to Hydrocarbon Pollution Is Oil Production?
It began as a student project by Professor Jamie Rector's class at the University of California, Berkeley. They wanted to investigate...
Lab-Grown Meat
Here's an interesting look at attempts to replace farms and ranches with industrial food production facilities . I'm not...
Honor - Tradition - Optimism - Challenge
Here's another Imprimis article I enjoyed , Victor Davis Hanson's 2025 commencement address for Hillsdale College. Some...
Morse-Lewis-Endeavour Music
Many years ago, when Inspector Morse first aired on PBS, we watched several episodes, and have since enjoyed the whole...
A Leader Like That
It's time to bring back a post from eight years ago, which I called Leadership . It was inspired by the funeral of a man I wish...
Now THAT Is a Shower!
There are a lot of things about the good ol' days that I don't miss—smoking on airplanes is at the top of the list—but...
Angels - Comfort or Terror?
I'm inclined to believe that any comfort angels have to offer comes after the terror part. And that's probably a good thing.
Racism, Sexism, or Autism?
At Heather's suggestion, I am now reading Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who...
The News We've Been Waiting For
So much of Grace's story is about waiting for news. This time, it was for the results of an all-day assessment at Dartmouth last...
My Biggest Fan?
The article is a mix of humor and serious commentary. It uses satire to make a broader point about constitutional literacy and the...
Tiny Tim's Tropical Sunshine Punch
For another of the numerous projects that overflow my cup of time, I was perusing my post of almost a decade ago, A Dickens of a...