It can’t be all politics and economics. There’s just not enough blood in it. There’s more than there used to be, for sure. But not the right kind. So, from time to […]
An Essay About Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
One More Secret
If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will have a lifetime appointment to a position that will have unparalleled impact on women’s reproductive and other rights issues for the next quarter century. On Sunday, Kavanaugh, the […]
A Generation of Fear
It takes a generation of living with something before it changes the way we live. When the electrical grid was first installed and factories shifted from steam to electrical power, very little […]
There Can Be Heroes
I first saw Trevor Hoffman pitch in person during the Spring of 2001. I had just moved to San Diego on orders to a ship set to deploy that summer. Before we […]
Once and Always Friends
An old friend of mine passed away a few weeks back. I hadn’t seen him in 30 years. For a time, in grade school, he was my closest friend. We lost touch […]
Kids These Days
Today is my oldest’s birthday. I’m now the father of a teenager. While I bolt down the furniture and batten down the hatches in preparation for all I’m told that comes with […]
Appreciation for Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is the most effectively produced war movie I’ve seen in a long time. There are a few things that characterize my time in the military but the one that […]
