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Frederick Douglass Today

Liberty is meaningless when the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the...

Independence Day Is Three Days This Year

I LOVE the Independence Day parade and festivities in Geneva, Florida. I've written about it many times. We were small in numbers this...

Heroes May Fall, but Justice Must Stand

Are you shocked that Bill Cosby is now free? I was, but now that I know more about the circumstances, I'd be shocked if he weren't....

Morality, the Church, and the World

Memes are today's proverbs: None is perfect for every situation, but good ones speak truth clearly and efficiently. This is a good...

Wildlife in the Morning

I love sitting on our back porch in the early morning. It's usually dark when I come out, and at first my only company is the insects...

YouTube Channel Discoveries - How to Cook That

I love cooking shows. Most of them are on cable television, which we have never had and I hope will never feel the need to have, but...

When You Have 150 Hours to Make a Cake

Or 20 minutes to watch a video . This feels more like a Japanese tea ceremony than baking.

Making the Joyful Choice, Part 3

Part 1 of the visit of our Swiss family is here , part 2 here . At last, Christmas drew near, and we focussed our activities nearer...

Flag Day 2021

           

I Identify as Vaccinated

Since it changed hands, I haven't found the Babylon Bee as interesting as it used to be. Or maybe Facebook has only been showing me...

Return of the Swallowtails

Butterflies don't look back at the caterpillar with shame. Stop looking at your past with shame. It was a transformation and it...

Using the Courts as a Hammer

I'm guessing not many of my busy blog readers will find it a worthwhile use of 14 minutes to see the latest Viva Frei video , about...

Courage

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C. S. Lewis, in The...

Maybe This Is Why Lawyers Get Paid So Much

Lawyers aren't very popular among the people I know, and even in general are more often maligned and mocked than almost any group of...

I Said It On New Year's Day 2020

I've never claimed to be a prophet (those guys are supposed to get it all right), but every once in a while I surprise myself. Looking...

Florida Sues the CDC

Being a Floridian, and one who has enjoyed several cruises, I was naturally intrigued by the following Viva Frei...

Making the Joyful Choice, Part 2

Part 1 is here . Now for more of our adventures during our December attempt at choosing joy and life amidst a pandemic-inspired focus...

Quote of the Day

  What are you saying NO to today, so you can say YES to something better?    (S. D. Smith, author of the...

What Are You Trying to Prove?

According to this article ,  During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," [CDC director Rochelle] Walensky was asked...

Making the Joyful Choice, Part 1

This is the post I started to write five months ago, but postponed to make sure everyone involved got through their quarantines and...

Storytelling as a Sex-Linked Characteristic

This may explain a few marital frustrations. (Credit to someone on Facebook but I can't find it again to share it.)

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot  and The Wild Robot Escapes  by Peter Brown (Little, Brown 2016, 2018) When everyone in the house...

O Canada

So ... Canada is now saying, "It's not as bad here as in North Korea, or Nazi Germany." And we can say, "It's not as bad here as in...

For the Mothers Who Sorrow

I really don't like the way Mother's Day has been altered, morphing from a joyous celebration of and respect for our own mothers ,...

A Child's History of England

A Child's History of England  by Charles Dickens ( public domain,  1851-1853) Dickens' book is, unsurprisingly, in the...

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