I guess I didn’t always abhor the ‘holiday season’. I certainly remember being swept up in the merriment, (I was a featured performer in the Noble Elementary School Christmas Pageants of 1953, ’54 and ’55 after all), I relished the extended school vacation, and I had relatively normal expectations for…
There will probably be no ticker-tape, (do they still have ticker-tape?), parades or jubilant celebrations in town squares, or bombastic orations on victory or the necessity of might. Yet, the tragic loss of life and the trauma of injury, both physical and mental must not be minimized and the bravery…
I believe that we’re at least one extra terrestrial intervention away from having any chance at substantially reversing the tide of our humanly absurd behavior, and I also and wholeheartedly believe that politics of any ilk is not the answer to any question, but Newt…really? Newt, whose bullying tactics are…
To: Santa Claus North Pole Dear Santa, If you’re really there, and if this minimally-addressed letter actually finds its way to you, and if you even take the time to read it, (in lieu of delegating the task to some grumpy elf), and if I haven’t mistaken your purview…