Occasionally, when the mood strikes me I’ll resurrect a favorite commentary from my past life as a commentary writer for the Vail Daily.  I think it’s good to re-share positive ideas.  This post/commentary was published on January 2nd, 2003, and I while I view the...

I came of age in the sixties—Vietnam, social upheaval, the Beatles—and I remember clearly how I viewed the World War II generation. They seemed old, rigid, and out of step with the times. What I didn’t appreciate then was how little time actually separated us. It had...

If given the opportunity to attend the Super Bowl, Game 7 of the World Series, Game 7 of the NBA Finals, or Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final—there’s no question which one I’m choosing. I love them all. The Super Bowl is a once-a-year spectacle, the World Series carries...

For as long as I can remember, communication had built-in closure.  A verbal acknowledgment.  A letter answered.  A phone call returned.   And every face-to-face comment earned, at minimum, a nod.  There was an endpoint—a signal that the message had been received and...

Walk through any airport today and you’ll see pajama bottoms, sweatpants, and slippers.  And it’s not just younger travelers.  It seems as if comfort has become the default uniform of public life in America That’s not to suggest we return to the 1940s and ’50s, when...

To understand what we may be facing in the Middle East today, it helps to revisit a moment when fanaticism and power collided in 1945. By mid-1945, the United States was preparing for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands.  Japan was already reeling—its...

In today’s post I’m going to pick up where I left off yesterday to bring context as to how we got to this point with the Iranian regime. Controversy is always attendant to military engagement and the current war with Iran is no exception.  However, there is a pattern...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy informed the nation and the world he had imposed a naval “quarantine” around Cuba, signaling the United States would not tolerate the Soviet Union’s “offensive military buildup” in the Western...

There has been a lot of accusations from democrats in Congress whether the Iranian regime actually posed an “imminent threat” to the United States.  So, I thought we might examine the word imminent from the dictionary’s perspective versus what it means in the context...

Yesterday republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave, i.e.,  ‘kicked out’ of a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, because employees said they felt uncomfortable having her in the restaurant.  One patron even shouted at her while flipping her...