Like many, if not most of the human inhabitants of our planet, I sometimes struggle with conjuring up ideas, solutions, and, yes, even inspirations. My mind goes blank like a page waiting to be filled. That struggle isn’t limited to the immediacy of the moment. Sometimes it seeps into my […]

It was one of those hazy, humid southern summer mornings that alerts all of the locals that their familiar daily dosage of swelter would not be taking an unexpected day off. Creaking and bumping along its pot-holed Second Street route, the city bus ambled slowly, the tiny drafts emanating from […]

I grew up in the 1950’s and, as did many youngsters of my age, I idolized Davy Crockett. Each episode of the Walt Disney produced weekly television of The Adventures of Davy Crockett starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen became fodder for all of the neighborhood kids to act out the following week. Of […]

It was a bitter, cold evening in northern Virginia many years ago. The old man’s beard was glazed by winter’s frost while he waited for a ride across the river. The wait seemed endless. His body became numb and stiff from the frigid north wind.   He heard the faint, […]