No Regrets
For a long time, I have wanted to read a biography of First Lady Barbara Bush. While I occasionally disagreed with her stances on issues, I have long respected her heart for her husband, children, and grandchildren and the leadership…
For a long time, I have wanted to read a biography of First Lady Barbara Bush. While I occasionally disagreed with her stances on issues, I have long respected her heart for her husband, children, and grandchildren and the leadership…
On Ray’s and my last trip to Missouri, we listened to the delightful Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat by Rear Admiral Michael Giorgione, CEC USN Retired. Members of the U.S. Navy operate Camp David. Giorgione…
High on a hill overlooking Latrobe, Pennsylvania, . . . . . . stands the St. Vincent Basilica. Both the exterior and the interior of the structure built around the turn of the 19th century are beautiful. The basilica is…
When I was growing up, the family rule was that our Christmas tree had to be down by New Year’s Day. As a child, I sang about the 12 days of Christmas, but I wondered just when they were. Now…
One of the most famous feats in an airplane took place on May 20-21, 1927. Just 23 1/2 years after the Wright brothers made the world’s first successful airplane flight on a beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Charles Lindbergh…
One of my reference books, as I am writing the new America the Beautiful, is a children’s book about presidents’ mothers. I don’t particularly like the book. It is too disrespectful in its attempts at humor for my taste, but…