No taxation without representation
No taxation without representation. What ultimately became a battle cry of the U.S. colonies prior to the American Revolution appeared in print for the first time roughly 250 years ago. First printed...
View ArticleBeware of Homicide Hammocks
If COVID-19, civil unrest, murder hornets and firenados aren’t enough, I am here to warn you about one of 2020’s lesser-known calamities – the homicide hammock. Yes friends, apparently even leisurely...
View ArticleHindsight is not 2020
No offense to whoever coined the phrase, “Hindsight is 20/20,” but you sir deserve a nice, swift punch to the nose. And if the author of that saying was a female, well, ma’am, you will find no...
View ArticleEdward Van Halen – the greatest to ever play the guitar
Last week I concluded a column by saying just when you think 2020 can’t possibly get any worse, you find out you are painfully wrong. Before the ink had even dried on that opinion piece, the news broke...
View ArticleI was there
I arrived last Wednesday in D.C. at 9 a.m. on the Mall with a group from Harrisonburg. We walked down the Mall toward the Washington Monument and the White House. The crowd was growing rapidly, and we...
View ArticleTalking to young children about our world now
For the past nine months the children in our lives have been through so many experiences – SCARY, SCARY – an unknown illness sweeping across the US, the fluctuation of schools today – or no school...
View ArticleEaster: Between Saturday and Sunday
When I was a kid, Easter was a big deal. Of course, Christmas was a bigger deal. There were toys at Christmas. Easter came with candy and new church clothes. The latter was received before Easter,...
View ArticleCancer – The Unsung Pandemic – Episode One – The Three Children
Late last summer my disabled son and I were working in our Laurel Fork garden around 6 p.m., when we heard a helicopter fly in nearby. Thinking nothing of it at first, we kept on with our weeding. But...
View ArticleCancer—The Unsung Pandemic
Last week, I ended my article, “The Three Children”, lamenting “the headlong and very profitable race to cover the earth with deadly chemicals.” In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote in her book, Silent Spring,...
View ArticleCancer – The Unsung Pandemic Part III
LOST LOVES It’s full springtime here at Fried Pie Farm, so named because the survey plat of the land is shaped like a fried apple pie. Since I bought this place three-and-a-half years ago, I have...
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