I have been posing items in this blog for more that six months. Occasionally I get a bit of feedback, mostly positive, but I really have no idea how many people are reading my posts. The web site tracks some users, but those who come to it via twitter or facebook are not recorded. I […]
When Ann and I left Chapel Hill in August 1952, the Korean War was just a bit over two years old. Many people today tend to forget that it was a United Nations endorsed effort in support of South Korea, and many nations furnished troops to fend off North Korean and Chinese aggressors. Of course, […]
I am writing about the blind side. No, I am not referring to the American game of football and the sad truth that quarterbacks do not have eyes in the back of their head. Instead, I refer to the political and social biases that make it so hard for us to see and understand the […]
This is the account of my courtship of the lovely Ann Laura McGuire, the woman who would become my wife. I began classes at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in September 1947. The following summer of 1948 I was home at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and working a summer job at the J.C. […]
After finishing the sixth grade at Carolina Beach Elementary School, my next two school years (1941-43) were spent at Winter Park Junior High on the eastern outskirts of Wilmington. The school was about 15 miles distant from the beach, and a school bus picked us up every weekday morning. Because of the distance from home […]
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace. This beautiful sentence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses the sort of feeling that is beyond our ability to describe. No dictionary can provide words adequate to describe such […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised to pass the new Equality Act. Do you understand what is in it? I urge you to read the my post, “LGBT Issues.,” that I wrote in early November but am republishing today. Also read the following article by Emilie Kao, Director of the Richard and Helen Devos Center for […]
Among many other things, Benjamin Franklin is remembered for saying “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” I do not pretend to be an expert on economics or financial matters. The mysteries of national and international financial manipulations are beyond my ken, and I tend to avoid thinking or […]
My brother Branch, his wife Ruth, and infant son Branch Jr came to Carolina Beach in late 1940 and lived with us for a time at our home on Harper Avenue before acquiring their own abode. Branch loved surf fishing, and he got to do a lot of it that year. While he fished, Ruth […]
Those of us in the general public often think of our representatives in Congress as being somewhat deranged. Never has that been more true than it is at present. Little more than a decade ago Charles Krauthammer, a medically certified psychiatrist and much honored television commentator, applied the phrase “Bush derangement syndrome” to what he […]
