What Do I Know?

We're in Chicago with old, old friends.  Actually they aren't older than we are, but we've known them for a long time.   We thou...

[Video excerpted from speech to National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983.   Full speech available here.] While Reagan was disti...

 Despite three different topics in the title, this isn't going to be a long post. 1.  It's ok for firefighters, but not for the hung...

 I got this email yesterday morning: Dr. A: It's been many years since we last connected.  My last memory was the day in your office (Sp...

  Anchorage doesn't have a lot of what I'd call 'weather.'  By that I mean that generally things a relatively calm.  It rain...

This is a tale about a journalist who writes an article based on what a friend with a new high level job in DC told her.  She pretty much wr...

Blog post are backed up waiting to get through the Panama Canal equivalent of from my brain to my fingertips.  Floating out there are posts ...

  From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare , a book of essays that chews on topics from old age to writing.  In "It Doesn't Have t...

 My phone asked me to log in with my Apple ID today.  On a whim, I tried Air Drop after and it worked.  So, in what I hope is a long window,...

 In No Time To Spare  Ursula LeGuin writes about her fascination with words.   "When asked to talk about what I do, I've often comp...