The Tempest

Today is opening day in Major League Baseball. It’s been nearly 6 months since the end of the world series and every day since there has bee...

Today begins the week of my birthday. I will be 53 this coming Sunday. I neither love nor loathe birthdays. They just are. So there will be...

Back when George W. Bush was President the word “war” was thrown around a lot. George liked to talk about the “war on terror”. His critics w...

Newsweek is out with a story that 38% of Americans can’t pass a simple citizenship test. Intrigued, I hurried to their site to take the test...

God gives us dogs so we can see how humanity is supposed to behave. Out of Japan this morning is a video of two dogs, one obviously injured ...

I woke up this morning in the usual way. I walked downstairs, brewed some coffee, emptied the dishwasher and settled down on the couch to ...

My son comes home for spring break this week, the last one of his college career. I’m not quite sure how I should feel about this. Part of m...