STOLEN VALOR ACT CHALLENGED 

It was with a sad and almost dis-believing heart that I watched the TV news this evening and heard it reported that the United States Supreme Court is going to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act.… Read full post »

One of my first memories is from when I was three or four years old.  I remember being in the yard of a North Carolina farmhouse playing under large oak trees that were bare of foliage.  My mother was feeding wood to the fire under a big black wash pot/… Read full post »

ADAPT OR PERISH

Much is being written recently about how the Burmese pythons, the huge snakes native to Southeast Asia, are rapidly destroying many mammals in the Florida Everglades.  Some have been discovered to have eaten small deer and even alligators.  The US government has/… Read full post »

Here I sit again looking out the window of my condo on this tiny island called Marco on the Gulf of Mexico.  This island paradise is situated as far south as one can go by car in southwest Florida.  To go farther south, one must board one of the many/… Read full post »

As my mother was nearing her 90th birthday she started losing short term memory as most people do at that age.  However, she started regaining vivid memories of her youth.  On one of my visits to see her, she related that the night before my visit she woke up and started… Read full post »

            Recently I attended the funeral of a dear friend who was being interred in a mausoleum crypt.  Following the final words of the officiating clergymen I spent some time reminiscing with the family… Read full post »

 (CHANGING OF THE GUARD CEREMONY

AT THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS)

On a recent trip to Washington, DC, a part of my soul was cast up from the depths of whatever subterranean cavern in which it usually resides and catapulted into my conscious for some serious reflection.&n… Read full post »