Category: Culture

America has become the land of the sirens.  In my hometown of Annapolis, Maryland, a public safety vehicle goes screaming

Whatever happened to American flag etiquette?  When I was growing up you would catch flak — usually from a veteran —

Where you choose to live is pretty much a sort of intelligence test.  Oh sure, hometowns, families, and economic circumstances

My home town of Annapolis, Maryland got hit with almost a foot of heavy/icy snow on the second day of

It’s the end of another year, 2021, a terribly disturbing year indeed. And in spite of all the uncertainty and

Humans have a limited capacity to be nice.  Because it’s hard work. And for most folks, it doesn’t come easy

I spent a lot of November battling the leaves. They were relentless. All fall down. And my neighbors, or their

Most people like to strut their stuff every once in a while.  It’s nice to be noticed.  But people with limited means,

I recently was getting some dental work done and it suddenly hit me that dentists are essentially just master carpenters

For most of human history, there were no countries.  Nations simply didn’t exist in any sense of the word and