Here’s a picture of the most famous place near where I grew up: It was fun to think that the roads we rode our bikes on were part of a farm that George Washington owned. We had hoped to have our high school graduation on the grounds of Mt Vernon, with it being...
That solid piece of ground we thought we were standing on just shifted again. It’s possible that the relative peace we’ve enjoyed for the last month or so may be upended again. I don’t want to go into detail, but we may be making big changes in the...
This isn’t a complete list, but these had the biggest impact on me. 1. Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fisher. From the Amazon page: …It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance...
Heroes. We all want to have one, if we can’t be one. We want to believe there are people who get it right, who do the right things for the right reasons. We want to believe that bad people are different, and don’t have anything in common with good people....
