My wife and I decided to go for a walk in the woods today. Nothing like the Appalachian Trail, mind you, just a short, pleasant walk. We headed to a trail in Cumberland off Angel Road, the Veronica Geddes Bowen…

In a recent Op-ed piece, Tom Ward, the editor of the Valley Breeze (a local Rhode Island newspaper focused on the Blackstone Valley area) bemoaned the difficulty of police departments in dealing with the issue of marijuana.  He described the…

I came across a headline yesterday (December 2, 2014) that caught my eye.  The headline, from Boston.com, read Internet Turns on Once Beloved ‘Ferguson Hug’ Cop The link to the article is here. The ‘Ferguson Hug’ Cop is the one…

I recently attended my 40th year high school reunion.  Not a particularly remarkable time line, nothing so dramatic as a 75th or so, but still 40 years had somehow vanished in a flash. I’ve remained friends, over those forty years,…

While the Ebola panic dominates the news, an equally important story goes almost unnoticed. Brittany Maynard, 29, suffers from a rare, untreatable, and 100% fatal brain cancer; diagnosed with grade II Astrocytoma, the most aggressive form. The prognosis for the…

A Pennsylvania Trooper was shot and killed the other day, and another Trooper wounded. Ho Hum says the national media and most Americans. The troopers signed up for the job. It goes with the territory. Really? Where’s the nationwide outrage,…

I lost a friend of 50 years today. He has passed on. I met my friend when I was 7 years old and he has always been a part of my life since. But, in life, there comes a time when you…

In a recent op-ed piece by Travis Rowley entitled “Duck, Duck, Gays”, Rowley argued; “It’s the strangest thing. That is, for Christians, out of love for their fellow man, to attempt to spread the good news about Jesus Christ, to…

Friday, December 20, 2013 9:44 AM I detect a great deal of hypocrisy in the sudden embrace of Free Speech by Evangelicals, Right-wingers, fundamentalists, and others as they seek to “protect” the bigoted ranting of a guy famous (and wealthy)…

I have come to the realization that some aspects of my life are in declination, while a few remain as counterbalancing inclination. I have, a few years ago, acquiesced to the declination of my once 20/20 vision and began carrying…