Welcome friends to the hottest month of the year – July. It is also the month from Hades if you are living with a woman just beginning menopause. For decades I have fought my wife over the air conditioning thermostat. I needed it to be cool in the summer to […]
I read a lot, mostly financial news, but I glance at articles regarding the trends of society. I am an independent and worldly thinker, I read liberal and conservative news sources, as well as foreign sources. It was yesterday I read this on Fox News, which some of you will […]
This is a call, like the lighting of a beacon, for the response of as many women as possible. I am an author and a man, a manly man. I don’t have hidden feminine traits. Therefore, you might consider me an old fashioned Rhett Butler type. I write about heroes […]
If I could wish anything for my family and friends, and even strangers – is to live a life of passion. It has been said that doing what you like is what will provide the most happiness in life. For most of our lives we are working. Yet most go […]
We humans are an interesting species. We rarely take a good hard look in the mirror, instead we project our insecurities onto others and even the animals species. When we do this we feel better about ourselves. We laugh at ugly dog and cat contests to deflect our own imperfections […]
On July 4th I had a relaxing day sitting by the pool sipping Mai Tai’s with very old friends. We talked about new grand babies and those not yet arrived, diets, movies, etc. Of the funniest moments was a discussion of the Twilight series. My friends wife asked me about […]
Today we celebrate an historic moment where men seeking freedom made a declaration of independence. They backed up this declaration by winning a war over their idea: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable […]
Everyday someone or some corporation is registering or trademarking a name that can never be used by anyone ever again unless with permission, which is usually millions of dollars. Apple is registering the name iWatch for some new gadget the techie drooling world will drool over. They need to do […]
When I read Paradise Lost for the first time I was blown away by Milton’s originality to the fall of man story. I continue to be fascinated by Dante’s Inferno and concept of the underworld and of course, everything in Tolkien’s world. As I begin the fifth story of my […]
Whoever said, “like father like son,” was a genius. Except now it is like grandfather, like father, like son. Here is a weekend photo of the Greenlee men just chillin out, as my son would say, on a hot Saturday afternoon. My generation might call it hanging out or hanging […]