Delta Dreaming

 Long before I read “The Fort Brag Cabal” by Seth Harp I had determined, through my experience, study, and observation that drugs, illegally...

 America has forgotten how to dream. I saw something like that in a quote and it started me thinking. My thoughts: Yes we have. No we have n...

 Binary arguments plague us these days. These are situations which offer only two opposing sides or choices, often implying that if one is t...

 Heard a new phrase today that fits me perfectly: "The sensible center." Do you sometimes feel like you are in a crater in the mid...

 There’s a French term: “L'esprit de l'escalier” or  ”staircase wit” meaning the predicament whereby one thinks of the perfect reply...

 Useful idiots abound these days, unfortunately on both sides of the political spectrum. It is a term that originated with Russians Vladimir...

 COACHES   Thinking about football coaches. Never sell one short. Some years ago, I was sitting in the lobby of a real estate office in a ...

 DEBATES There are things about the telecasting, nationally, of so-called presidential "debates" that bother me. Yes, first and fo...

 BOLDNESS A popular sci-fi series in America included, in its introduction, “…to boldly go where no one has gone before.” That serves us wel...

 THE LAW There is a legal defense of sorts that used to be taught in the law schools of my state. It may still be. I don’t know. I’m not an ...

 POLICIES Time was when political elections featured well-formulated policy statements, called platforms, from which voters were to choose. ...

 LEADERS When I started my professional career, I had the opportunity to work for many of the cities in our state. Without fail, the leaders...

CHILDLESSNESS Evidently one political party endorses the view that a childless woman, expanded to a childless couple, doesn’t deserve a role...

 NEW DAYS There is an old British idiom that warns,   “There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.” Who in their right mind would predict the...

 POPULARITY One hears it often during this political season in America: “I don’t like either candidate.” That’s all. No policy analysis. N...

 ELECTIONS Our next election won’t rely on facts. Both extremes of the political factions denounce any facts that don’t resonate with embedd...

 VIOLENCE The first time I ever saw a dead body that wasn’t a victim of old age, it made an impression on me. It was that of a Vietnamese ma...

No, I didn’t watch the so-called debates. Those things make me nervous. I sort of place them in the same category as watching an automobile ...

I never go out of my way to offend. Well, sometimes I veer that way, but, I hope, without malice. Today, though, my soul is too full. Please...

It’s Sunday and I’ll take a day off from the story of my professional life. Maybe I’ll mention my political and religious preferences inst...