You Gotta Love Daylight Saving Time! Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour this weekend unless you’re in Arizona or Hawaii or some parts of Canada(?) My Canadian friends can skip to the bottom of us this if you’re in a hurry. Even though I’m an old curmudgeon – and let me emphasize the… Read More »
Smile…You’re on Somebody’s Camera! One day this week, while browsing a real newspaper – Gosh! I really love the smell and feel of real newspapers – I read an article that made me think. It was about school systems that have started to put cameras on school principals — so they don’t abuse students or paddle… Read More »
Crocuses, Life, and Hope I don’t have much of a life, I guess. I’ve been waiting all winter to see some form of life spring forth from the cold, almost-still-frozen earth. Normally, the first things to spring forth are the crocuses, and most years these hearty little flowers start poking their heads up through the hard,… Read More »
This Will Be My Song Every February, I find myself reflective and yearning for spring. We’re past the midpoint of February and soon the crocuses will push their tiny heads up out of the cold, partially frozen dirt. When they do, I’ll know that spring has come no matter what the calendar says. But winter is… Read More »
Foreword We wrote the following essay nearly nine years ago. Who would have ever dreamed that we would see our right to privacy go from being seriously threatened in 2013 to virtually being non-existent now? Charles Dickens once wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” and now I’m looking at the… Read More »
Like a Dove in the Snow I think that this time of year when darkness comes early and the nights are cold is a thoughtful time. I look out my window and see the endless white of a fresh blanket of snow. This cold, bitter time of year is a time of reflection. The stark, bare,… Read More »