Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: The 2020 Shutdown
“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
If you’re like me, you hope that “wear a mask,” “social distancing,” and “flatten the curve” are phrases that disappear from our vernacular sooner rather than later. I’m going to give you my take on this year’s shutdown, but with one disclaimer and one caveat before I begin. […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Baseball
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”
–Lou Gehrig ( July 4, 1939 farewell speech)
Okay, a little less serious topic this week, except for those of you who love the game of baseball as much as I do. Professional baseball has had a tough year. First, it was the revelation that the Houston Astros, long suspected of cheating, actually used high tech cameras to steal […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Immigration
“Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve.”
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Tuesday Thoughts: Pandemic
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Since the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor in the U.S. Territory of Hawaii, our country has been attacked just twice- in 2001, when foreign extremists crashed their planes into New York’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, and earlier this year, when an invisible warrior we now know as Covid 19 […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The 2020 Shutdown
“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
If you’re like me, you hope that “wear a mask,” “social distancing,” and “flatten the curve” are phrases that disappear from our vernacular sooner rather than later. I’m going to give you my take on this year’s shutdown, but with one disclaimer and one caveat before I begin. […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Baseball
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”
–Lou Gehrig ( July 4, 1939 farewell speech)
Okay, a little less serious topic this week, except for those of you who love the game of baseball as much as I do. Professional baseball has had a tough year. First, it was the revelation that the Houston Astros, long suspected of cheating, actually used high tech cameras to steal […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Immigration
“Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve.”
[…]
Tuesday Thoughts: Pandemic
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Since the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor in the U.S. Territory of Hawaii, our country has been attacked just twice- in 2001, when foreign extremists crashed their planes into New York’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, and earlier this year, when an invisible warrior we now know as Covid 19 […]