Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Originally this blog was started to defend America's efforts in Iraq and our leaders who started everything over there. Despite what exteme leftists might say, things are going great in Iraq and every day grows closer and closer to a time when a large force of troops isn't needed there. ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
For anyone who knows me, either personally or through my posts at Ivory Dome, it's no secret that I'm a big opera fan. Here in Amarillo, we have a really great opera company with a world-class performing arts center at its disposal. But with only two productions each season, I have to look elsewhere to feed my opera ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Driving home from work, with the sun shining and the temperature in the high 70's, I was reminded by the announcer on the radio that today is the first day of spring. This time of the year always reminds me of a poem by e.e. cummings that I would end ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Having been an opera affectionado for over three decades, one of the greatest regrets of my life is that I never got to experience the great Pavarotti in person. The brilliance of his tone, the power of his voice, and the absolute passion of his performances were unsurpassed among tenors of ...
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
In the midst of all this debate about how we're to handle immigration, it suddenly occurred to me that I was once a guest worker myself - in Poland. This was back in 1992 and 1993, right after I had retired from the Army.
At the time, Poland was emerging from over forty years ...
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
It was twenty years ago today that Ronald Reagan gave his now famous "Tear Down This Wall!" speech at the West Berlin side of the Brandenburg Gate. Who would have dared to believe that barely two years later, that infamous Wall of Shame would indeed come down. The events that ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Last December, I posted an old letter of mine on the local liberal blog. It was to the editor of a newspaper in Monterey, California. Some of the examples are a little dated (it was published in 1990 - some 16 years ago), but if you've got the time, here's ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
In the past I have tried to keep my personal life off of this web site however something happened to me recently that I must post about. On October 30th of this year my wife, Cara, passed away. She had a blood clot in her brain that caused ...
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