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There are times to speak your mind, however unpopular it might be. Take the hit and lose some peeps and be true to the voice inside that is often quelled in the name of being non-controversial. This is one of those times for me. A friend of mine, who rarely sees eye to eye with me on most things political, said something so disturbing to me regarding the upcoming trial in New York City for the 9/11 bombings that I ...read more  Halloween is one of those holidays that you don’t really have to prepare in advance to get through. Did you know that 1/4 of all candy sold annually is sold for Halloween? This does not surprise me in the least. I’m sure I buy most of it. For years, I have started buying Halloween candy a month before the night when kids come knocking. “Get it now and you won’t have to worry about it,” I say while traveling through the ...read more I remember the night forty years ago when they landed on the moon; July 20, 1969. I was sixteen years old and the night was clear with the moon visible to the naked eye. I drove around in my Cougar XR7 blue convertible, with the top down and three friends all singing Fly Me to the Moon at the top of our lungs. We were the only ones driving around. Everyone was at home watching on TV. But there was something about ...read more I’m not superstitious, or religious, but I have always been moved in an eerie, this has a larger meaning, way by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both dying on the 50th anniversary of the Fourth of July, Independence Day. The odds alone leave me in awe. Although failing fast, Adams was determined to survive until the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1826. At dawn on that day he was awakened by his servant, who asked ...read more I was at a lunch the other day when the topic of big business and its leadership’s unwillingness to take the Internet by storm and weave its marketing assets (like Facebook, Twitter, and Blasting) into the fiber of their business strategy is startling. I knew the answer. It’s one of those right in your face, too simple to believe answers. They don’t know how to type. I got involved with the Internet in the early 1990′s on Compuserve, today’s AOL. As friends ...read more I really don’t know anything about Memorial Day. I have been around for 56 Memorial Days and have no idea where it originated. So, here are some Memorial Day facts to give you a better understanding of why you have the day off. On May 5, 1868, General John Logan proclaimed Memorial Day and had flowers placed on all the graves – both confederate and Union – at Arlington Cemetery. The South refused to honor Memorial Day until after World War ...read more I spent a few hours on the phone last night with an old boyfriend, now turned phone friend. He moved to Japan awhile ago. I must recount part of our conversation that leads to the diluted point of today’s post. “Ok, Mark, you need to come home. The country’s a mess, and you need to come home. It’s all hands on deck right now.” “I’m not an American anymore. I’m not coming home.” “Being an American is not something you can choose to ...read more I was worried last night about the accuracy of our history for future generations. How will they know what really happened? I, for example, living in this historical time have no idea what is really happening around me. In the past, our country’s history has been confirmed and re-created through letters – letters from observers of history written mostly without ulterior motives and simply as observations or opinions. The best example that comes to mind are the letters between John and ...read more |
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