None of us will ever forget the winter of our discontent, when ice-burdened trees toppled and crashed like bowling pins, dragging down the wires which until that instant had, like veins, carried our home-life blood to us, keeping our homes functioning and throbbing with life. Impotent now, the wires spread across the ground in grids […]

His tenure as president was punctuated with unrelenting adversity, tortured from the outset by obscenely high inflation and a post-Vietnam-and-Watergate nation that had a sour disposition. His fragmented administration was disproportionately populated by political cronies from his home state of Georgia. His micromanaging style drew widespread derision and his right of center values resulted in […]

“In a perfect and just America, who possesses the greater political power — the rich and wealthy or the language contained within the U.S. Constitution? Answer: The U.S. Constitution, namely, ‘We the People’” (“Don’t let power guide your vote,” Portland Press Herald, Oct. 4, 2023). In our current political/ legislative/judicial environment, however, do “We the […]

Everyone groans when you talk about making New Year’s resolutions, don’t they? Keeping resolutions feels like a chore. Resolutions rub me the wrong way. They’re a headache and something that no one really wants to do. However, people resolutely trudge through the failures of their new year resolutions … knowing full well that even as […]