“Dogma lives loudly in you.” – Senator Dianne Feinstein, to a (Christian) judicial candidate EVEN PEOPLE IN LALA LAND CAN SEE that it’s gone loony. Harvey Weinstein wasn’t the only snake out there. By the way, snakes and the apple got a bad rap in Paradise (my family raised apples). Something was lost in the […]
“All the sportswriters were mad at me that night because they wanted to get to Hank after the game and I closed the clubhouse to everyone but the team and families . . . I stood on a table and said what I thought about Hank, which was that he was the best ballplayer I […]
Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school wisdom.” – Douglas Brinkley, on “I Had a Hammer” I’M READING The Hank Aaron story, another of my one dollar purchases from a local library. I could do a book review every week if I had more […]
His horse went dead and his mule went lame, And he lost 6 cows in a poker game. Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day And blew the house where he lived away. An earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house stood on And then the tax collector came […]
“I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.” – Patrick Henry “JUST AN ACTOR.” That’s what they called President Reagan. But he didn’t just collect wisdom; he cultivated it. Not long before his birth’s centennial, the Reagan Library found a box containing […]
Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the Silent Generation. We are the smallest number of children born since the early 1900s. We are the “last ones.” We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and […]