The Cliff
Bear with me a moment as I describe the scene. You're walking up a steep incline. The kind that never seems to end. It just keeps going up and up and your breathing gets harder and harder. You feel...
View ArticleHumility and Arrogance
A few thoughts on humility and arrogance, on history and current day:I recently discovered iTunesU and have just finished listening to an excellent lecture series out of Yale University by Dr. Joanne...
View ArticleYoung People and Politics
The American Revolution was, on a grand scale, supported from within the halls of the American universities in the 1760's and '70's. University students (then much younger than they might be now)...
View ArticleFinding Your Voice in the Masses
I once had a co-worker and good friend that referred to me as a walking history book. I took it as a great compliment and continue to do so even though I certainly don't feel as if I know as much as I...
View ArticleA Character in the Making: Freedom Lewis
I tend to reserve this blog for historical and social/political musings, but every once and a while I may branch out into a bit more. Today is one of those days. I usually begin with a bit on history,...
View ArticleCommitment
Image via IMDB.comI have a confession to make that is likely to either make my history-minded friends cringe or laugh. I feel I should make this confession in order to begin this post and to explain...
View ArticleHappy Easter!
Hello all and happy Easter! This will be an incredible short post today with the intent, really, to say happy Easter.I was hoping I'd have a full post for you today, but I've been sick with allergies...
View ArticleWords, Words, Words
Image via kalyan02Flickr Creative CommonsAs a writer, I think quite a bit on words. What do they mean, how do they fit, and what are the best collections of words to paint the picture of the world that...
View ArticleYom Ha'Shoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013
Yesterday evening at sundown marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day. About six million Jews were killed in this horrible display of humanity at its worst. They were rounded up in ghettos...
View ArticleRemembering Margaret Thatcher
It's interesting to think how posterity may view us. There are so many ways that people are classified: They were part of this generation or that generation. Were they involved with a political or...
View ArticleGod Bless Boston
I had originally planned a post for tax day that was meant to talk about taxation issues in pre-revolutionary America and reactions to that. That has been postponed. Regardless of the date on the...
View ArticleAct Worthy of Yourselves: The American Spirit
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you...
View ArticleAct Worthy of Yourselves pt. 2: America's Heart
My friend Heather and I took a trip down to West, Texas this weekend. No, not the far western section of the state, but the little town just outside of Waco that made national news this past week when...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of the Greats
In April of last year my good friend and fellow writer C.E. Thornton and I made our first trip up to Boston. We went, originally, to attend a convention that Lora Innes (author/illustrator of The...
View ArticleFree Enough
There's a conversation a little over half way through The Liberty Pole in which one character asks an other "Haven't you ever wanted to be free?" to which the second replies "I'm free enough," and she...
View ArticleDoing It Right
John Noble and Jasika Nicole'sFringe panel at Dallas Comic-conThis past weekend I attended the Dallas Comic-con. It was a blast and I thoroughly recommend it. It's crowded and it's just short of chaos,...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism: Pomp and Parade
Fourth of July may be my favorite holiday. I know that's a bit odd, perhaps, with all the others, and certain ones have a special place in my heart, but the Fourth is my favorite. Obviously enough to...
View ArticleFighting Against the Odds
Some of my favorite stories are about the underdogs and the lost causes. They are about men and women and groups of people that had no hope of succeeding, but they raced forward anyway. They fought the...
View ArticleSticks and Stones
Bully by trix0rvia Flickr creative commonsDo you remember those little phrases that we were taught as children to remind us that words couldn't hurt us? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...
View ArticleA Generation of No Consequences and Guarantees
How times have changed....I was listening to a talk show the other day and caught the tail end of what must have been a young man, perhaps just having finished high school or university. He and the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Funds for West Texas Relief Withheld
Many around the country heard about the explosion at the West, Texas plant in April of this year. The following is a guest-post by author C.E. Thornton on the progress - or lack there of - of the...
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