I am going to quote Genesis. This may raise some hackles a bit. Regardless of what one might think of the Genesis creation story, there is much to learn from it as men recorded what they felt were the words of God. You may believe this. You may not. You may not even believe in…

Labor. We must perform it. We must have it. It is the lot of men to labor. Someone wrote about this a long time ago. Genesis 3:19 says: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,…

President Bill Sherman sat at his table, sipping his black coffee and reading the Washington Post, having just finished a breakfast of two sunny-side up eggs, a whole rasher of bacon, six pieces of sour-dough toast, and a generous portion of orange marmalade. He had a pile of briefing papers prepared for him to review…

For your own edification, substitute the word “Syria” for the word “Egypt” in my 8/17/13 Blog Post, leave out the references to Napoleon and The Sphinx, and see for yourselves if it is not still relevant. We seem bound and determined, driven by an unpersuasive narrative of leaks from the White House, to engage in…

It seems like a lifetime ago. It seems like yesterday. Eight years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made her way on shore, aiming dead-eye at Waveland and Bay St, Louis, Mississippi, or a part of the land mass the exists between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, as Mississippi was referred to on many national news broadcasts…

Though boredom is rare for me, I have certainly been bored. I have been strikingly bored. Haltingly bored. Even murderously bored. I admit that there have been times when I was so bored, I loaded up my rifle, a spotlight, and got on the 4-wheeler to ramble down in the woods looking for coyotes, armadillos,…

There are few things as complicated and as minimally rewarding as international politics. How do nations get along with each other, anyway? The language of diplomacy is always cloaked, always obscured behind the idea of letting the other nation think what one is suggesting is their own idea, or in their own best interests, since…

I’m in the middle of it. The summer malaise. This is that time in the south when it’s too hot, too wet, and too humid to have too much interest in anything creative, in anything that requires thought since we are too busy swatting mosquitoes, dodging wasps, and scratching from the redbugs. Even the dogs…

“Write. Even if you have nothing to say, then write and say so,” Cicero said long ago. “Write. Even if you have nothing to say, then write and say so,” Cicero has been saying to me for the last three or four days. “Thanks, Cicero,” I finally said back. I headed down to my studio,…

I am tired of hearing about Paula Deen. I am tired of those condemning her. I am tired of those defending her. I am tired of her sponsors dropping her. I am even tired of seeing pictures of her smiling face. It has become passé for media celebrities to be convicted in the court of…