DUMP COLUMBUS

We have all grown up with the understanding of who our founding fathers were and that certain explorers were instrumental in discovering North America.  One of the explorers so revered, has a national holiday the 2nd Monday of October.  Christopher Columbus was a con...

TOMMY

Let’s call him Tommy.  Tommy waited in ambush for the driver of the refrigerated delivery truck to go inside the grocery store. Within seconds the boy was joy riding through the city in the five ton truck.  The police were chasing Tommy.  He couldn’t see them,...

THE SHUTDOWN

We have a Congress that would rather play right wing ideology than make our country better.  It’s much like the kid who takes his ball and goes home because he is losing.  Where is the honor in furloughing 800,000 employees?  Where is the honor in costing our country...

TERRORISTS

Not too long ago, the honorable Rep. Michele Backmann R-MN, declared “there are terrorists in the House of Representatives.”  She may be correct.  After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, our economy hick-upped for years, the near collapse of World finances,...

THE POLISH WEDDING

We dug deep in our backpacks to get to the tightly wrapped plastic bags that held our going to wedding clothes. Ironically, they fared well in the bottom of backpacks and required little attention.  We arrived by taxi at the rented nightclub.  Matt and Michalina met...

POLAND

  On our way to a Polish wedding, we arrived by train in Bydgoszcz, Poland, half way between Warsaw in the middle, and Gdansk on the Baltic Sea.  Our son and his fiancé met us with hugs and kisses. With backpacks in tow, we arrived at our apartment.  It was...