Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]
Tuesday Thoughts: How Do We Put a Silver Lining on the Election?
“America has continued to rise through every age against every challenge, a people of great works and greater possibilities, who have always found the wisdom and strength to come together as one nation, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, to form that more perfect union.”
–President Bill Clinton
First, an admission. I was wrong in thinking abortion wouldn’t play much of a role in the recent election. That issue, and student loan forgiveness, apparently brought out […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Have an Attitude of Gratitude?
When I next write, it will be the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and many of us will still be in our post-Thanksgiving dinner, tryptophan-induced semi-coma. So, I’ll save the silver lining on the recent election for that day, and perhaps avoid the push-back I might get were you in your usual state of alertness!
As our Day of Thanks approaches, I simply want to list some things I’m thankful for, just as I did a year ago. Many of today’s were also […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Who’s Fooling Whom?
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
–Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln/Douglas debate; 1858)
I don’t need to list them. Unless you’ve been on a SpaceX adventure the last two years, you know the important problems Americans are dealing with every day.
But when asked what he would do first with a new Democrat-majority Congress in 2023, President Biden’s choice was to push legislation […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]
Tuesday Thoughts: How Do We Put a Silver Lining on the Election?
“America has continued to rise through every age against every challenge, a people of great works and greater possibilities, who have always found the wisdom and strength to come together as one nation, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, to form that more perfect union.”
–President Bill Clinton
First, an admission. I was wrong in thinking abortion wouldn’t play much of a role in the recent election. That issue, and student loan forgiveness, apparently brought out […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Have an Attitude of Gratitude?
When I next write, it will be the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and many of us will still be in our post-Thanksgiving dinner, tryptophan-induced semi-coma. So, I’ll save the silver lining on the recent election for that day, and perhaps avoid the push-back I might get were you in your usual state of alertness!
As our Day of Thanks approaches, I simply want to list some things I’m thankful for, just as I did a year ago. Many of today’s were also […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Who’s Fooling Whom?
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
–Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln/Douglas debate; 1858)
I don’t need to list them. Unless you’ve been on a SpaceX adventure the last two years, you know the important problems Americans are dealing with every day.
But when asked what he would do first with a new Democrat-majority Congress in 2023, President Biden’s choice was to push legislation […]