Category Archives: Opinion

I recently became aware that Texas – the state where I reside – has been busing undocumented immigrants to Democrat-run cities like Chicago, Denver and New York. The idea is to give those cities a taste of the border crisis … Continue reading →

It’s been so long, that I had to look up the meaning of “imprecatory” again because it’s not something I slip into everyday conversation. Imprecatory means “To invoke evil upon; to curse.” But it derives from the Latin verb precari, … Continue reading →

News of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde took me back to a tragedy of a different kind that I experienced up close. When you have to clean your friend’s brains off his bedroom wall like I did after his … Continue reading →

My grandson was asking about the Statue of Liberty the other day. Lady Liberty is prominent in the Marvel movies he watches, at least the ones set in New York. Spiderman, the X-Men and the Avengers all stop by the … Continue reading →

My six-year-old grandson’s hamster, “Hamsterdam,” loves his plastic hamster ball. At least once a day he is taken from his cage so we can clean it, and is either placed in a wire pen we set up in the living … Continue reading →