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 […]
A debate about Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been in the news recently. Some fear that teaching this theory is being pushed throughout the Federal government and the nation’s military services, and they fear its effect. Critical race theory asserts that white supremacy exists in America and its existence is maintained though the nation’s laws […]
River Walk This is a photo of a portion of the river walk in my old home town of Wilmington, North Carolina. That’s the Cape Fear River in the background, and it flows into the Atlantic about thirty miles south of this place. I lived in Carolina Beach, about fifteen miles south of Wilmington town […]
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