PASSENGERS, PREPARE FOR DEPARTURE

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A week ago, when I was away from home, a dear friend was up late, unable to sleep because of something that felt like a combination of indigestion and, maybe, a hiatal hernia. ...

SHOT SHOW: DAY ONE

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Today was the first day of the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show. The main Show itself won’t actually open until tomorrow (at the Orlando, Florida Convention Center). This was Media Day, when writers...

WHEN WE GIVE THANKS THIS WEEK…

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I don’t think it’s coincidence that Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving take place in the same month. I recently read “Hell’s Guest” by Col. Glenn D. Frazier. Frazier had been a conflicted mid-teen kid in the...

REFLECTIONS ON THANKSGIVING

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Hope all y’all had as cool a Thanksgiving as I did. Significant Other and I spent it with my younger daughter, her husband, and their beautiful little girl – my first grandchild – who...

“IN THE HALLS OF JUSTICE…

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…most of the justice is in the halls.” That classic phrase among lawyers aptly describes how things work.  When criminal charges are levied by the authorities, far more cases are closed by plea bargains than...