Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade ...
The lights and colors from the woods feed my spirit. Darkness can be depressing. Life combines light and dark, good and evil. I still have a hard time seeing an evil heart. I have never met a truly evil person. Think what it must take to convince a child or an adult to kill people they don’t ...
The sojourn up to T.C. to squeeze in some quality holiday family time began uneventfully on Thursday to avoid the holiday traffic. About forty minutes in, the cell went off. Having forgotten to take it out of the trouser pocket, and remembering that Smoky was ticketing those who drive and ...
How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...
The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the collapse of an era in American media where political outrage replaced entertainment, ideology replaced humor, and audiences were expected to applaud lectures ...
As an Alpena County Commissioner, today I participated in a regularly scheduled bi-monthly board meeting to conduct county business. On every meeting’s agenda are the public comment periods. I am not sure how many Alpena County citizens are aware, but there is a very controversial issue currently being debated regarding the Alpena County Fairgrounds. Meetings the last few months have been inundated with large numbers of citizens wanting to voice their objections to the proposed plans, which they have every right to do. I can feel the emotion behind all the noise and insults, but am ...
