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Random Thoughts IX – Catholic School Edition
Well, this is only partially random, but I'm sort of stuck with that appellation for a collection of...
The Ancestor Question
This article is all about the infamous “Muddle in the Middle” of the human ancestry between uncontested human...
A Few Thoughts on History – and the Writing and Teaching Thereof II
(I provided a background to this series in the first part which you can find here.) Part the Second: Ancient...
A Little Culture – 1
The Royal Palace of Caserta Even though I first saw it in January – may have shared the cover pic on Twitter...
A Few Thoughts on History – and the Writing and Teaching Thereof I
Swindon: “What will history say?" Burgoyne: “History, sir, will tell lies as usual.” George Bernard Shaw, The...
Independence Day
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in...
Remembering John Lee Pratt – An FDR Dollar-a-Year Man
Recently we were having a family discussion about Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg and its last private owners...
A Penny For Your Thoughts
If you’re invested in the thoughts market you might want to hold.[1] I like to make local brick & mortar...
The Death of the Family
It will shock no one for me to say that the modern American family is an institution in crisis1. There will...