Yesterday we celebrated the 245th anniversary of our nation’s birth. That’s a rather short span of human history. Some nations have lived much longer – some not so long. Most of our citizens are proud of our country and are pleased to be called Americans. A few disgruntled residents prefer to find fault and want […]
Shakespeare put the following words into the mouth of Macbeth. “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creep in this petty place from day to day, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” What a sad outlook on life. We certainly cannot classify Macbeth as an optimist. Macbeth’s lament is the statement […]
Unless you have experienced it, it is difficult to imagine the pressure a young mother endures when she has a brood of young, active children. My dear wife Ann experienced that sort of pressure, and I don’t know how she managed to survive. The few times I stayed home to take care of the boys […]
There are many things I cannot understand. Much of my confusion relates to the nation’s current political divisions. I believe that the election results in several critical states need to be verified. On the other hand, there are prominent people whom I respect who seem to think that the whole exercise is much ado about […]
There is an old story about inmates taking over an asylum. We laughed at the thought, but we can laugh no more. It has finally happened. Girls are becoming boys and boys are becoming girls. Others claim to be neither male nor female but something in between. Most members of the Democrat Party have taken […]
Over the next week or so I am going to present some arguments, or apologia, in support of faith in God – in particular, the Christian faith. As I do this, I make no claim to original ideas. There is very little new under the sun, and I have borrowed from the writings of Augustine, […]
On Father’s Day I posted a photograph in Facebook of my father taken when he was 22 year old. Saunders (Sandy) Jordan 1895 I was born in 1929, at which time my father was 56. It was difficult for me to visualize my father as a young man. We did have that 1895 photograph hanging […]
In the early 1700s the coast of Carolina seemed to be infested with pirates. The most famous of these was Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard. He sailed in and out the rivers and sounds of eastern North Carolina until finally trapped and killed near Ocracoke Island on November 22, 1718. Stede Bonnet was another pirate […]
White privilege is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-whites in some societies, even if these non-whites may otherwise enjoy the same social, political, or economic circumstances. It is thought to have its roots in European colonialism and the slave trade. Institutions, laws and practices developed, often subtle, that served to protect white […]
My son Stuart and my nephews Branch Fields, Jr, and Wallace Ware (Skip) Neblett all lost their spleens at an early age because of accidents. Stuart was almost five, and the other two were in their teens. I have always considered it somewhat miraculous that boys survive childhood. The spleen is located in the upper […]
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