OK, raise your hands; how many had their Thanksgiving plans altered, modified, changed, revised, amended or tailored this year?   Yeah, us too.  Not that it wasn’t a most pleasant day, it was, Bobbi made a terrific dinner, we enjoyed each other's company, spoke and...

According to the World Economic Forum there are five (5) stages of development for a new vaccine, which usually takes 10 years or more to complete. 1) Discovery/Research – 2-5 years; 2) The Pre-Clinical Stage – 2 years; 3) The Clinical Development, Phase I – 1-2...

Life will go on regardless of who sits in the Oval Office, but the recent election pulled back the curtain on a very troubling aspect of our political process; it appears the mainstream media and much of voting public has either forgotten or has never understood the...

It can be argued that English is the richest of all the world’s languages.  If nothing else, it certainly has the most words; in fact an excess of 500,000 and if we include technical and scientific words, we can add an additional 150,000.  Compare that to the second...

Recently I mentioned to a friend that Tuesday, November 10th marks the 245th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps.  After making the comment, he asked a curious question, “Why is there a Marine Corps?”  He went on… “The army has infantry and tanks and...

Few people question that the partisan divide in America has deepened in recent years.  And a good argument can be made that it accelerated exponentially during the lead-up to, and immediately following the 2016 presidential election when an indecorous political...

When we discuss temperature, we use the words hot or cold and then modify hot with warm and cold with cool and place tepid smack in the middle. But when we discuss attitude, it’s usually in terms of optimism and pessimism.  But few people are optimistic or pessimistic...

Children are the most naturally loving little creatures on earth, and they have a unique way of spreading their love around, which is no small thing these days because let’s face it, sometimes the world can be downright mean. So today I wanted to share a few quotes...

There’s a new board game coming out soon, it’s called Monopoly for Socialists.  This iteration of the world’s most famous board game is a bit different from the original Parker Brothers version, and this is how it works.  When the person with the most money,...