Tag: poetry

• December 26, 2025

  On Dealing with a World Gone Crazy

  ​There’s a story, which may or may not be true, that an old Chinese curse was “May your children be born in interesting times.” The curse was because, goes the story, the yearly chronicles included things like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, peasant rebellions, invasions, plagues and so on. So it meant that may your children suffer disaster.  ​We live in…
• May 4, 2021

  The Origin of the American Santa Claus

  In the United States, the Christmas season starts the day after Thanksgiving. It is simultaneously a genuine holiday and the most significant retail season of the year, as buying gifts for Christmas is a huge economic phenomenon—one that sometimes diminishes the good feelings common to the season. Christmas is celebrated all over the world in…
• May 1, 2021

  African Americans who owned slaves

      The history of slavery in the United States lasted for centuries, and is the nation’s original sin, a permanent stain on American history that the blood of 750,000 killed in the Civil War did not wash away.     But slavery becomes more and more complicated the more you study it. There’s quite a lot…
• April 29, 2021

  Meeting Pete

  When I was in graduate school in Wisconsin, my mother met a man named Pete. My father had died several years earlier, and she was lonesome. She liked to socialize, to dance, to eat and drink with friends. She was a one-man woman, and liked strong men. She didn’t care what they looked like as…
• October 3, 2020

  Hello World

  I am posting again “Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” Today’s Topics… Oak and Old Ironsides….History Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie… History Pajamas……Society and culture …