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Mother Nature is out to sting me

I’ve learned the hard way that Mother Nature is anything but weak and feeble. I bought a house in the country a little over 30 years ago — a total fixer-upper. An old couple had lived there — hoarders — and the place was a mess. But that didn’t trouble me. I was full of energy.

Judge Trump, not his golf game

One morning during Bill Clinton’s presidency I got a call from my friend who works at the Pebble Beach golf course. Mr. Clinton was teeing off at 6:30, he said, and if I hurried over I could tag along. The golf was underwhelming.

Promise not to blink this school year?

Pay no attention to the seemingly frozen clock in sixth-period trigonometry class. Time is moving way too swiftly. My son graduated from high school four years ago, and I have yet to sit down and fully appreciate the work he put into the yearbook. (Cut me some slack.

‘Village of the Damned’ starring Sydney Sweeney

When I first saw “Village of the Damned,” I was 11 years old, staying up late to watch the Million Dollar Movie on our local ABC affiliate. It wasn’t a particularly scary film, but it did give me a moment’s pause, as much of a moment as an 11-year-old can spare for philosophizing.

Iran’s water crisis is a mirror and warning

I hate being right about things that only lead to disaster. It’s not flattering. It’s not vindicating. It’s just deeply, depressingly familiar. Right now, in July 2025, millions of Iranians are struggling to get clean water. Sanitation is collapsing under sweltering heat.

Opelousas WW2 B-26 gunner survived fall

George Lewis Moscovis was known to his fellow World War II airmen as a hard-working, clean-living, God-fearing man who carried a Bible on every combat mission.

Will alcohol-free weddings catch on?

“For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name/ There is booze, there is booze…” — apologies to Paul Stookey According to the Wall Street Journal, six percent of couples polled by wedding-planning website Zola will host a completely alcohol-free wedding in 2025.

What would Johnny Carson say?

I wonder what Johnny Carson would say about the demise of late-night television. Carson was genuine and funny — at his funniest when his monologues bombed. On Bill Maher’s podcast, Jay Leno explained why he was so much better than today’s late-night comics: “Carson had class. He was gracious.

How Marxists attacked our Constitution and religion

The Ten Commandments, which God himself hand delivered to Moses, became the foundation for the U.S. legal system in 1787 when the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution.

There is a genocide going on, but it’s not in Gaza

I have a very good friend who I’ve known for decades, and he posted something on Instagram the other day that shocked me. Apparently, there is an actual genocide happening in the world, not one that is fabricated for political reasons.