For one reason or another, the draft of Debra’s article reminded me of John Lennon’s well-known quotation, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The plans that I made when I was young kept changing. Nothing went quite the way I had planned. I am not even able to determine how much—or […]
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Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News One of the best known poems of the Nineteenth Century was the “Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It captures both the courage soldiers display when facing certain death and the foolishness of war. The Light Brigade had been ordered to charge the front, and although that meant charging into certain death, […] Posted December 31, 2015 in Monthly News For those of you who know both of us, it will come as no surprise that Debra and I don’t always agree. As she points out in her article this month, she tends to be optimistic. I am not an optimist, but I do not think of myself as an pessimist, either. When it comes […] |
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