Personal Notes
Last night I learned that Pat Buckley, wife of conservative giant William F. Buckley, Jr., had passed away. By all accounts, she was a truly remarkable woman.
Building on several earlier postings of reflections here and here, the final throes of unpacking tonight led to the discovery of a quote by the famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh cut out of an old Sunday newspaper edition of Parade Magazine – of all things! – from my high school years over 30 years ago,…
With all that has been going on here in Warwick regarding the mycoplasma outbreak, I need to give public recognition to my wife. When we were informed that the schools throughout the city were shutting down for the rest of the week, my gracious spouse refrained from telling me, “I told you so,” though she…
Ted was my English teacher in 1971-1972, my junior year in high school. And he was one of four teachers who, over the years, had a profound effect on my life. A high school classmate told me two days ago that Ted had lung cancer and I called him yesterday for the first time in…
From the second chapter of Luke: In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town…
{Nota Bene: Two years ago I wrote this post offering some thoughts from soldiers and others concerning spending Christmas at war. I still believe it to be relevant today. Merry Christmas.} With the current confluence of Christmas and our nation at war, I think it appropriate to mention a few noteworthy writings that deal with…
Yesterday we went to see the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, based on Christopher Gardner’s book of the same name. I didn’t know anything about the movie before viewing it or know anything about Gardner until the end of the movie, including that it was based on his life story. Today, I found this interview…
Today is Arlene Violet’s last day on 920 WHJJ. I had the pleasure of being on her show a number of times in the last year or so – to discuss education issues – and I want to thank her for her graciousness to me during those times. Thanks, Arlene, for the last 16 years…
I just discovered that the leaders of the union to which I once belonged were indicted under RICO in September and that their trial is underway. Michael and Robert McKay have been living on borrowed time. Respectively, president and treasurer-secretary of the American Maritime Officers, the McKay brothers, aged 59 and 56, rigged elections, stole…
As occurred last February during a previous cleanup, another cleanup now allows me to pass along an excerpt from an article and two other quotes which I discovered during tonight’s effort: Patti Davis, President Reagan’s daughter, wrote A Daughter’s Remembrance: The Gemstones of Our Years on the occasion of his death in 2004: …My father…
