I was sitting in my car in a nice shady spot overlooking Highway 221 (Main Street in Marion, NC), listening to the radio. Suddenly, my
Month: August 2014

A little “Peace” of the Green …
This is a photo I “borrowed” from an old classmate Joe Bria … It’s a scene that is indelibly stamped in my brain — as

The Second Amendment!
“Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,

L-O-L-L-Y-P-O-P Therapy!
Not kidding! It’s come to this! After months & months of every procedure, every test, every [it seems] surgery, every medicine – words with Latin

A LETTER FROM DANIEL DAY-LEWIS … a Handwritten Note From Hawkeye Himself
Photo of Daniel Day-Lewis courtesy of Scott & Barbara Willis … Used by permission!

How I Make Friends:
New Year’s Eve, Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dutchess County, NY, 1983, probably — I worked the day shift and had recently transferred up there
What the Left is.
What I wish the Left would come out and say. Just get it over with: “We think that the founding of this country was based

The Hussy Bus Cross-Country Adventure!
What started out to be still another Great American Novel, perhaps has turned out to be nothing more than a composite journal put to narrative

We’re Talking To You, Miss!
The phone call was surprising; the interview was a treat, but … what was it Chris Mathews said about Obama giving him a tingle up

Some Early Memories of Valley Stream
Ann Szatmary is my earliest connection, and memory, of Valley Stream. We moved next door to her family in August, I believe, of 1956. We

The Real Bridge to Nowhere
Progressives … always … moving on … moving forward … down the wrong road. Whether you want to call them Progressives, Liberals, or [today’s] Democrats,

Government Hand-Outs in Terms Maybe Even Liberals Can Understand
A Metaphor … They were a proud people. They were religious, fierce warriors, practicing a way of life that had existed since before recorded history.