Once again, a health issue caused me to be out of pocket for a length of time. I was in the hospital on Christmas Day last December, discharged on New Year’s Eve. I wrote about […]
Category: African-American News
Tis The 2018 Holiday Season
Tis the season, so on and so on. I love the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year holiday season. I, like all, are reminded of our childhood seasons. Our young adult seasons come to mind. We think of those […]
Celebrating Our 50th Wedding Anniversary
My wife and I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday at the Pittsburg Senior Center. Our actual anniversary was on August 31st. We choose to celebrate it on Saturday, September 1st to get the […]
Governments Civilian Employees
I won’t pretend to speak for civilian workers of the US Government. Yet, especially these days, someone needs to speak on their behalf. I’m qualified because I’m a retired Department of Defense Procurement Contracting Officer. […]
AWOL, Truth and Compassion.
Oh Truth & Compassion, Where for art thou? I see those traits every day when out in public. Anyone who is paying attention to who and what is said around them sees those traits in […]
Walking, Driving or Living while Black
As far back as the late sixties, when I ran the streets. A twenty-something living my life young, gifted and black. So, advised Donny Hathaway in his hit song of the same name. Though the […]
The NFL’s lack of Public Relations
The older I get, the more impatient I get with stupidity. Not your normal dumb things we do as humans. Because I would have a lot of problems with a few of my personal decisions. […]
Maturity comes with a Price and Responsibility.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve never run away or shied away from who I am. By that I mean my birthright or race. Oh, I’ve had my questions of why I had […]
On the Downslope of Life
The kid is no longer the kid. I’m a baby boomer on the downslope of life. At an age where I have no patience with selfish, racist, liars, or people without good principles. Despite the […]
Here’s 2018, or…
…Down is up, up is down and sideways is running around in circles We are approaching or in a brand-new year. Yet we are still dragging along a bunch of crap from the old year. […]
