Allah, please save the minarets
posted about 15 hours ago, updated 12 minutes later | 6 comments
By and large, no religion has more symbols that conflict with secular life than Islam. I am reminded of the Islamic women who wanted to have their Driver’s License photos with a veil. No, said the courts. Similarly, Islamic women have also asked t...
Retirement - A dream that has faded?
posted 1 day ago, updated 1 day later | 5 comments
The year was 1997 that my application for early retirement was approved. I was to get my “silver bullet” as a reward for 32 years of dutiful service. I wasn’t copping out as my home mortgage was paid off, my three children had no student loans att...
Was this land made for you and me?
posted 3 days ago, updated 14 minutes later | 3 comments
We all give Thanksgiving today for family that is safe and the best country on Earth to raise that family. My family will gather at my daughter’s new condo, where I am heading in a few minutes to tend to the bird, while she hits the road on a mini...
Navigator Aurora at the helm
posted 4 days ago, updated 15 minutes later | 4 comments
I’m a low tech guy. I don’t even own a cell phone. A couple of years ago I drove to South Carolina with my son and he had a GPS monitor. I brought along a map and memorized the route. I never got lost. He did. I have driven in cities throughout Am...
French Lick Tomato Juice
posted 5 days ago, updated 25 minutes later | 6 comments
Since 1845, folks from the Midwest have been vacationing in French Lick, Indiana. A majestic hotel and spa, the waters of the salt licks discovered by French settlers have cleansed and refreshed guests for generation. Once a popular brand, Pluto W...
Aurora Australialus
posted 7 days ago, updated 8 minutes later | 5 comments
I'm kind of busy today, as I take to the road for a couple of days of relaxing in the warm spa waters of French Lick, Indiana, so I am letting Penguine,my occasional guest blogger, have a say. Today she is obsessing on the tendency of scientists t...
40 years and still counting
posted 7 days ago, updated 20 minutes later | 5 comments
On a beautiful Fall day in 1969 in the City of Cincinnati, this lucky dog made the best decision of his life. He married his lovely blond blushing bride on a day of festivities that started with the communion mass at St. Gertrude’s Catholic Church...
Sarah Palin comes to town
posted 8 days ago, updated about 2 hours later | 3 comments
Sarah Palin was in town yesterday, signing books for the thousands of Cincinnati area residents who came out to the Joseph Booksellers ceremony. Everybody is talking about Sarah -- some critically and some positively. Her face splashed across the ...
La Donna e Mobile
posted 9 days ago, updated about 5 hours later | 3 comments
I have had a lifelong love affair with opera. In college, my room mate, a fellow jock, took Opera Appreciation as an elective and played it by the hour. Then as my daughter grew up, I would take her to the Cincinnati Zoo Opera each year. Yes, it w...
Jazz Bird
posted 10 days ago, updated 18 minutes later | 4 comments
A couple of days ago I went to the local library and there in front was a stack of copies of “The Jazz Bird,” by Craig Holden. The author is coming in for a book discussion in a couple of weeks and local residents are urged to take a memory trip b...
