To My Magnificent Fellow Life Travelers: Our country’s upcoming birthday has suffered the same fate of so many of our national holidays. While many Americans still consider it a day dedicated to patriotic reflection, for far too many others July 4th is merely another day off work; a time to relax […]

His passing this week brought back youthful memories. He began playing major league baseball in 1951, the year I was born, and he retired in 1973, the year I graduated college, married, and transitioned into adulthood. He was one of my childhood heroes. It wasn’t that I was a big […]

Only a Dad By Edgar A. Guest Only a dad with a tired face, Coming home from the daily race, Bringing little gold or fame To show how well he has played the game; But glad in his heart that his own rejoice To see him come and to hear […]

In his book, A Vindication of Natural Society (1756), the Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke wrote: “The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement; not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by […]