A Chinese day with Mickey
posted about 3 hours ago, updated 8 minutes later | 4 comments
A little over 10 years ago I took three weeks to study Chinese culture in three Universities located in that country. One week our group was in Quinling University, in the mountainous regions of the southern portion of the country. It was a pictur...
Whe it gets hot in the icebox
posted 1 day ago, updated about 4 hours later | 3 comments
As we approach the winter solstice, our northern hemisphere minds think of cold weather. But on the south side of the Earth, the on-come of summer is eagerly expected. My friend, Penguine, a gentoo penguin who lives in Antartica with her family, h...
A woman’s gift to a man
posted 2 days ago, updated 10 minutes later | 4 comments
I am in Florida right now and my wife is in Kentucky. I have to attend to the landscaping and other details of individual home ownership, while she is making Christmas for us at our northern condo. Because of physical disabilities, my wife has bee...
Tiger in the Garden of Good and Evil
posted 3 days ago, updated 13 minutes later | 4 comments
Like most Americans, I am interested in the details of a Tiger who was caught up in prowling for stay cats in the Garden of Good and Evil. As I read the news, I am reminded of the many lessons of the Bible, one of the first being about making bad ...
2004: I find a new home
posted 3 days ago, updated 14 minutes later | 3 comments
This is my last installment on the 12 part series which traces my 70 years on this planet. It started all in 1939, then progressed to 1949, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 and ends in 2004. I’m still living the 70th year, so I...
A Neighbor Remembered
posted 4 days ago, updated 3 minutes later | 3 comments
I was glancing through my newspaper on Thanksgiving morning when a Obit Notice caught my eye:
Bonnie D. Passed away at age 86. Loving wife of Kenneth. Mother of two, grandmother of 12 (!).
She was my old next door neighbor for 28 years. It was ...
Bonnie D. Passed away at age 86. Loving wife of Kenneth. Mother of two, grandmother of 12 (!).
She was my old next door neighbor for 28 years. It was ...
Gate crashing and all that stuff
posted 5 days ago, updated 7 minutes later | 5 comments
Gate crashing is a national pastime for some. The sport reached it ultimate spectator status as the press reported that Tareq and Michaele Salihi crashed the Presidential Reception for the Indian Prime Minister. They got to shake hand with all the...
Another manic Monday
posted 5 days ago | 3 comments
For the first time in a month I had to be somewhere at 8:00 AM this Monday morning. Unfortunately, I got hooked on the Sunday Night Football game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. It ran into overtime and my bedtime was skipped by a couple of hour...
Allah, please save the minarets
posted 7 days 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 8 days 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...
