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O, I believe, fate smiled and destiny Laughed as she came to my cradle Know this child will be able. -Natalie Merchant My 11-year-old grandson took his first trip off the diving board last week. Two weeks previously, …
Will you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling down, down, down, down -Simple Minds My oldest daughter, Gena Bigler, is celebrating her 40th birthday. I wasn’t around for her …
In 1884 a new set of ideologies emerged that so divided the electorate that the Democrats won their first presidential race in six consecutive elections, the longest losing streak in American history. What ideologies were they? They were the very …
With Will Smith’s Men In Black 3 hitting theaters on May 25, I thought I’d take this time to point out the backstory of the “Men in Black” meme, which actually goes back to the days of the Roswell UFO …
My colleague and friend Phil Palmgreen is one of the smartest people I know. He remembers everything he has ever been exposed to and he knows how to recapture most of what he has learned in his lifetime. Now he …
I am a living legacy to the leader of the band. – Dan Fogelberg Mother’s day has normally been melancholy for me. My mother and sister died in 2006, the same year my marriage ended. After they died, …
With advances in use of the telegraph and the driving of the last spike in the Trans Continental Railroad at Promontory Summit Utah the world between the end of the Civil War and the election of 1872 grew a bit …
By the time Abraham Lincoln’s first term in office was coming to a close, the nation was in the throes of the Civil War. Though Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president, his party later revolted against him and …
As Americans watch the presidential politics of the modern era play out, it is interesting to note the resurrection of a successful strategy this year that was in play in 1860, the year the newly formed Republican Party eventually nominated …
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – On Thursday morning the backstretch at Churchill Downs was jammed with the usual suspects, some of whom were actually horse trainers trying to do their work. They were hard to find, though, amid the sea of humanity …

