As I’ve written before, we have a huge humanitarian crisis at our southern border. And you know I’ve been involved in offering a little help there. But that’s not the only place where suffering exists. Sometimes it’s good to think globally. Many in Yemen Are Starving What I’m focusing on today is Yemen, which has […]
The past couple of weeks I have been training to be a Quality Control Census Field Supervisor, just a tiny, tiny cog in the giant wheel that will comprise the 2020 count of people throughout the United States. So What? I also worked for the census in 2010 as an enumerator, going to homes that […]
This spring and summer I’ve been involved in a long labor of love. This involves taking my late father’s three books and preparing them for reprinting as Amazon paperbacks and Kindle ebooks. The work hasn’t been easy. But it really has brought me back in touch with Dad. In fact, it feels like he’s been […]
A well-kept secret in World War II concerned 30 live foxes that were painted to glow in the dark. The idea was that they would scare the Japanese prior to a ground invasion of Japan by U.S. forces. Feeding on Japanese Superstition According to my father’s book, Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur, these foxes fed into […]
In his book Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur, my father talks about taking the first group of correspondents into Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb. The dropping of the bomb caused Japan to surrender in World War II. Why is This Important? I’m writing at a time when we’ve seen increased tensions in the […]
My father talks in his book Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur about a World Are II incident in which he believes divine intervention saved his life. This begins with a man named John Edwards, a Pennsylvanian who maintained supplies for the troops. He and Dad shared a tent on the tiny Pacific island of Morotai. Shared […]
I think most people know now that the influx of asylum seekers from Mexico and the Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador is straining available resources. This is sad for everyone, but the good news is volunteers are helping! On My Visit While I was visiting last week, I didn’t go to the […]
The weather extremes we have been seeing should be enough. But a trip to Alaska and the Yukon my husband and I took recently really brings this home. Global warming is here. Is it too late to make the changes we need to keep our grandchildren from suffering? Fifteen Years Ago In a column for […]
I’m going to spend several days at the Texas-Mexico border next week learning for myself just what things are like and perhaps volunteering to help a bit. I also want to draw attention to the many people who are working to assist those in need. (This is one time I can learn firsthand without reading […]
People in the news business take their professions seriously. But sometimes errors sneak through. A column I found belonging to my father that was never published contained, among other things, the following: “News gatherers and editors are inclined to take their jobs seriously. But there is that leveler of journalism–the typographical error. Someone with more […]