On Sunday I watched “Black In America” on CNN. The program was well organized, well hosted, and smartly matter-of-fact. My reactions ranged from disgust at the idiocy of racism to hope in the great progress that has been made and will continue to be made.
I came to a startling realization as I watched [...]
Here in Eagle River, Alaska we are having a chilling summer. Every year when the leaves pop the same annoying seed of doubt sticks in our teeth. Will we even have a summer? Will it start to rain and forget to stop? The summer is half gone and we have our answer for 2008. [...]
I have to say I had a rough night’s sleep Tuesday. I kept waking up and wondering where I was and then remembering that I had a biopsy party to attend on Wednesday.
Part of me wanted to be positive and assume the best. However, the other part of me won out and I [...]
I’m going to have another biopsy tomorrow. My first biopsy in over eight months.
I’m in Utah. I arrived in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 11th after a long, cramped sleep aboard a dark, droning Delta flight (clever alliteration free of charge.) My daughter-in-law picked me up from the [...]
The following excerpt is from an editorial by Charles Krauthammer, at this link:
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class — social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies — arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in [...]
We have always wanted to travel the Denali Highway from Cantwell to Paxson. This gravel road which follows the southern arc of the Alaska Range is remote and wild. Before the George Parks Highway completed the loop from Anchorage to Fairbanks and back again, the Denali Highway was the only road access to Denali National [...]
I just finished listening to a biography of Thomas Paine. It is a strange thing the combination of talent and circumstances that wrought the United States of America. It is nothing short of miraculous. The dry fuel brought together by the likes of Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin [...]