Red, white, and blue
Reading Time: 2 minutes If I were a thread in the American flag, I’d be part of a white stripe below a red one, alongside the blue field. I hang with one color and stand by the other.
Read More Red, white, and blueCategory: SHORT TAKES
Short (2 minutes or less) essays and thoughts of the day.
Week in review: Week 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of […]
Read More Week in review: Week 26Which of these presidents is father to the National Parks?
Reading Time: < 1 minute All four–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln–are honored on Mount Rushmore. But which planted the seed for the whole national park system? Roosevelt, the conservationist and activist, is most associated with the National Parks system. His legacy of national parks and monuments includes Crater Lake, Wind Cave, Mesa Verde, Devil’s Tower, Petrified […]
Read More Which of these presidents is father to the National Parks?‘Inventions that changed history’ gets bubbly reviews
Reading Time: < 1 minute The reviews of “Inventions That Changed History” on Discovery+ are rolling in, and … I’m not in them. But they haven’t burst my bubble.
Read More ‘Inventions that changed history’ gets bubbly reviews‘Inventions that changed history’ pops on March 31
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Inventions That Changed History” debuts March 31 on Discovery+ with two episodes a week through April 14. Will Bubble Wrap be featured?
Read More ‘Inventions that changed history’ pops on March 31Ще не вмерла України
Reading Time: < 1 minute The State Anthem of Ukraine is a prayer and a promise from a people who have persevered over the centuries.
Read More Ще не вмерла України‘Marchons, marchons!’
Reading Time: < 1 minute The French have been singing this anthem since 1792. Free people will fight back in every way they can when despots seek to become their masters.
Read More ‘Marchons, marchons!’Presidents Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s officially Washington’s Birthday, squeezing Lincoln off the federal calendar. But it reminds us that presidents are, truly, just people.
Read More Presidents Day‘Inflation’ — The movie
Reading Time: 2 minutes MGM made FDR’s 1942 Fireside Chat on inflation into a propaganda short. The devil is still in the details.
Read More ‘Inflation’ — The movieJust say ‘I love you’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Trying to pack a year’s worth of love into a single day of romance seems superficial. Instead, try saying “I love you” every day, in words and in action.
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