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Open Letter to the Class of 1983 6 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
See you in September I can’t decide whether I'm more excited about college football starting again, or the few weeks until my 30th high school reunion. Thoughts go back to those years when your age s...
Part III: tribute to lost fire-fighters (fictional 9-11 story) 5 Jun 2013 | 07:04 am
Part III of the 9-11 Saga: Tribute to Fallen Fire Fighters Mike and his dad returned to the apartment and flipped on the television, instantly seeing the horror of what the planes had done: two disti...
Part II: Tribute to the lost firefighters of 9/11, continued... second installment: 14 Apr 2013 | 07:24 am
[Author's note: the first installment of my fictional 9/11 series was written 18-months ago, but listening to Brene Brown, and a trip to New York prompted more writing about the family O'Keefe. Althou...
Beginning with the letter-A: Arbitrage 23 Feb 2013 | 10:10 am
Another in a series beginning with the Letter-A: Arbitrage It’s better to understand arbitrage in the light of the circumstances that generate it, than to consider its success in the light of the di...
Movie Review: LINCOLN 2 Feb 2013 | 09:37 pm
DreamWorks film "Lincoln" (2012) (Houston, Texas) Movies allow us time travel, expanding our horizons, opening us sometimes to depths of emotion we did not realize we carried. History’s power as sto...
A-1 series beginning w/ the letter-A: Appreciation 31 Jan 2013 | 07:36 am
Appreciation Appreciation is all about relationships: friends, family, organizations that I value. A friend no longer living here in town is my “pick you up in the middle-of-the-night friend,” the ki...
Beginning with the letter-A: Awareness 28 Jan 2013 | 12:11 am
Awareness I’ve stopped at the same light for years, waiting 3-minutes for a left turn arrow. Today the driver window was down, beautiful spring smells filled the air, the clickety-clack of the old V-...
The Second Obama Presidency 15 Jan 2013 | 08:30 am
A window into Obama's second term actually happened just days before last fall’s general election when the President talked on the telephone with Des Moines Register [DMR] editors about their endorsem...
The Facebook Vote 9 Dec 2012 | 12:56 am
More thoughts on Facebook Have you voted? No, not the presidential vote, thankfully that is over. The vote on Facebook [“FB”] policies going forward. As stated in the policies, if more than 30% of al...
The Sons of Sceva #Fiction based on Acts 19 [Part 2] 22 Nov 2012 | 01:44 am
Part Two: fan #fiction based in part on Acts 19: 13-17 (the Sons of Sceva) Though shocking, a stark reality hit the Sons of Sceva: for once their fakery brought out the evil spirit! The room suddenl...
