Catching up on the last month… I’ve been reading some of the book Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Last night I was reading a section that included that Kennedy wrote in 1967: “…we are two worlds.” … Continue reading
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There was a gang shooting a couple blocks from our home in Steubenville the other night. [We live near the border of a pretty hardscrabble Rust Belt area here. Let’s just say it isn’t Mar-a-Lago.] A teenage boy was killed … Continue reading
Yet more Buckeye Back Road stumping… In Van Wert, Ohio, we stopped at old Bailey’s Restaurant downtown to put up a campaign flier. While having coffee there, I looked up to see a man who appeared to be in his … Continue reading
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For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I watched the movie The Great Debaters with our children. It’s about the debate team at Texas’s Wily College in the 1930s in a segregated South. Based on a true story, this Black debate … Continue reading
We traveled to Sidney, Ohio, where I stumped at The Spot Restaurant on the downtown square. There’s a rather nice plaque outside the eatery with a picture of former President George W. Bush. It says he made an impromptu campaign … Continue reading
Last year at this time, I gave a “State of the Union Address” at the University of Notre Dame just an hour, or so, before President Obama’s address. My talk that night is just as applicable to our country … Continue reading
Our family’s gift to Jesus this Christmas was a financial gift to Heifer International. We all kicked in some money to buy chickens for a Third World village. Heifer raises animals in America then ships them to these … Continue reading
We went over the Washington Bridge out of Long Island and headed south on the New Jersey Turnpike. At a Service Plaza, I passed on a campaign card to a man from Massachussetts. He said he would have … Continue reading
We stopped at Serenity Pond in Kurten, Texas. This is 10-acres of private property that Patricia Jane McCain turned into a “Wildlife & Bird Sanctuary.” She built a home on the property in 1987 and then set about, … Continue reading
We headed north out of Houston, stopping at Camp Kappe in Plantersville, Texas. This is a youth camp that teaches environmental awareness and empathy for the plight of those in the Third World. At the camp is a … Continue reading