Tomorrow morning, we head out for a few days getaway to celebrate my 65th birthday…boy, writing those words feels really, really weird. Dawned on me this week that there are likely no more senior discounts for which this guy won’t qualify. Yikes. One of the things that I try to do–and hope to do more–is…
The past ten years or so have been a turbulent time in our nation’s politics, and have introduced divisions that few would have imagined at the outset. It would take a long time to catalog each of these; my purpose is to talk about just one of these divisions, one that touches me directly: though…
Let’s get this out of the way first: as a person, I like Eli Manning. Cool guy, nice foil for Peyton, would probably be fun to hang out with. But this is getting serious: Eli Manning is a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame…and it’s an utter travesty. Utter to the uttermost. There…
It’s election season and once again, we as Americans will be asked to make a choice; this time, as every four years, we will not only select all the members of our House of Representatives, and a substantial number of Senators, but we will choose our next president (not to mention an assortment of officeholders…