I recently had a visit from an arborist. By happenstance I pointed to a Laurel tree. I was corrected, that was a Sumac. "As in Poison Sumac?" I replied. Had I spent years embracing the romance of the Laurel tree, when I was looking at Sumacs? Bummer!
The actual Tour de France ended yesterday. A gutsy little Spaniard, Carlos Sastre, hung on to win, after his best performance ever in the final time trial.
The roughest way to learn to swim is to be thrown in the deep end of the pool, and have to dog-paddle your way to the side if you want to keep breathing.
The great danger in offering unqualified praise to another person is they could turn around, do or say something really stupid, and make you doubt your original judgment.
Last week I received emails asking why I had not written an editorial piece. Maybe it was that statement Jesse Jackson made about what he’d like to do to Obama for “speaking down to black people”?
As the years advance, and we discover new technologies to improve our daily lives, we find that humanity in general has taken a giant step back into the dark ages. Especially the healing arts.
Anyone who has a television, a computer, a newspaper, or a radio, knows that the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Heller case on Thursday, ruling that the Second Amendment provides a personal right to "keep and bear arms."
Some places have hurricane season, others have a rainy season. Us? We have fire season. With the Fourth of July coming up - game’s on! In the last few years there has been a serious fire in the hills within shouting distance of my house.
Politicians are no longer consistent. It’s why so many long for the days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill. Gone are the good guys who could disagree on policies but have great love for their country and compromise in a way that would benefit the American people.
This week on TV there was a senior member of Congress whom I knew from way back when, talking about “the gas crisis” and “what Congress should do about it.”
