Billet-doux /bilāˈdo͞o/ | noun: love letter; French: literally sweet letter. You are gone now and there’s nothing I can do about it, except to coexist with this excruciating pain and the numbing knowledge that it didn't have to end. I...
You'll remember from my article, “Has Anyone Here Seen My Old Friend”, that prior to launching this platform, I avoided social media like some dark age plague.  Not because I didn't see the benefit in it—I always did. It’s...
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America may be our only solution. It must be invoked to remove the 45th president of the United States and return America to sanity, to return reality to...
On November 19, 2016, I published an article titled “Flim-Flam Man Flynn.” In it, I took the recently disgraced retired general and former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn, to task for being forced out of the...
Finally, voices that were once whispering have now been raised to audible levels. One voice is that of Senator Al Franken (Democrat from Minnesota); another voice is that of Harvard-educated Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic, author,...
I’m searching for a word. For something that will express my total and complete overwhelming feeling at the latest breaking news of Trump’s actions and words. I am not alone. Undoubtedly, all who can think in nonpartisan terms (known...
Once again I watched in awe. The way I have watched in awe when I drove professionally over-the-road as a semi truck driver. One sees way too much carnage when traversing the lower 48 states as a truck driver....
The houselights are flickering in the lobby. Signaling that the performers are prepared to perform. I did not want to see this play. If fact, I have been trying to find my exit since November 6, 2016, but alas,...
One down and 207 to go. Yep, that’s right. There are 208 weeks in a four-year term for the president of the United States of America. I’d bet everything and go all-in that you’re really depressed now (maybe even...
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -...

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