You can stop now if you want to. No problem. However we are witnessing one of the most, if not the most, unusual candidacies of my lifetime. I watched most of the Trump acceptance speech at the RNC Convention, and found it fascinating. It was a little long, and one could see it in the…
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Are There Aliens Among Us?
Okay, with that "come-on" headline, let's talk. The seed for this blog was an article in the June 12 Sunday New York Times. The summary of the piece is this: Aliens may not exist near Earth, but new discoveries imply that they once did, at least somewhere in the universe. In addition, the July, 2016…
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America Through a Different Sort of Looking Glass
To be forthcoming, this is a book report, but stay with me. American Nations, a History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by Colin Woodward is one of the twenty-two books (F and NF) that our men's book club reads annually, but one that completely grabbed me and introduced me to a much different understanding than…
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You Can Go Home Again
Unlike Thomas Wolfe, the famous North Carolina writer who wrote several American classics dealing with rites of passage, I could, and did, go home again. Of course my wife, Diana, and I have traveled back to Princeton, West Virginia, many, many times over the years. Yet our less-frequent trips are becoming more meaningful as we…
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