When the Founding Fathers placed the First Amendment to the Constitution first, I think that was by design. That amendment, while protecting freedom of the press, also protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances. Marketplace of Ideas While the press was fiery […]
I was saddened to read a New York Times piece recently that said a loose network of conservative operatives will begin discrediting news organizations hostile to the President. That’s not so new. But the method is. They plan to do so by publicizing damaging information about individual journalists and even their family members in some […]
I feel a little uncomfortable writing this post. I quit eating meat about three years ago, seafood too. I’d thought about it a long time. And after a brief illness during which no food was appetizing, I decided I just didn’t want to eat animals any longer. My Family Still Eats Meat At first my […]
It’s been many years since I’ve driven a new car. But I’m usually driving one that isn’t more than a few years old and one that looks pretty good. Who Banged Repeatedly Into My Door? That’s why I’ve been toying with having my driver’s side car door repainted where my husband has banged his passenger […]
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 […]