Columbus, OH October 22, 2019 The very underrated Grover Cleveland left office, but returned four years later to resume his duties. William Howard Taft was shown the door from the White House, but eight years later walked thru that of the Supreme Court. John Quincy Adams condescended to serve nine terms in the House of […]
Atlanta, GA October 14, 2019 Most know me as one who reads obscure history, watches classic movies, subsists on red wine, and writes pretentious emails. A guy who likes his political theory, his philosophic speculations, and his economic treatises like he likes his popular music and his Catholic liturgy: published before 1970. Then again, who […]
Murfreesboro, TNSeptember 27, 2019 Like a tobacco company with a state attorney general, things in our family seem ready to settle. Last week I accepted my latest job. This week Alexander’s first university accepted him. After he and his mother visited Auburn on Monday, Alexander joined me at Middle Tennessee State today. We made the […]
Atlanta, GASeptember 24, 2019 Like an ocean subjected to lunar influence, life moves in cycles, waves, and tides, with shifty undercurrents asserting unpredictable sway. When, five moons ago, my severance was sown, I thought I would reap rounds of golf that would fill my days like kudzu covers Georgia. Having spent last week pulling that […]
Atlanta, GA September 17, 2019 It’s always nice when you can do well by doing good. Yesterday was the Mercy Care Classic at the exclusive Peachtree Golf Club here in Atlanta (as if it doesn’t go without saying that the Peachtree Golf Club is in Atlanta). Mercy Care is an admirable organization providing medical and […]
Columbus, OHSeptember 13, 2019 Today, like a New England pond on a crisp fall day, we have a moment to reflect. Most of you, assuming you actually stoop to read this drivel…must wonder why I bother to write it. Let’s consider potential motives. Perhaps as an escape from stale hotel lobbies, noisy airport lounges, or […]
Highlands, NCSeptember 2, 2019 One advantage of spending three months as a shiftless unemployed ne’er-do-well bum is that you eventually don’t know or care what day of the week it is. Things must and do get done, but in general they can be completed on any day you prefer, in whatever order you choose. Similarly, […]
Atlanta, GAAugust 25, 2019 Some days you realize maybe you were better off not getting the first class upgrade, or retroactively relieved that someone else ordered the last filet mignon. I spent yesterday afternoon sitting beside my father-in-law as he received one of his three weekly doses of dialysis. He was asleep for about half […]
Benton, TN August 17, 2019 Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves, to higher things. – Tennyson David and I are with his Boy Scout troop for a snorkeling trip in the Conasauga River. Tonight we will camp back inside the Georgia line, near the town of Calhoun. The weather and scenery […]
Atlanta, GA August 10, 2019 I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson School is back. Last week David started his first year of high school, Alexander his last. The air, if not the calendar, carries a slight semblance of the season associated with a return to campus. Among the more amazing events in a […]