Peace

On January 15th, Dr. King would have been 82. Happy Birthday. “I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of [...]

A Very Merry UnBirthday

Tomorrow is September 14th, which I had always considered my half-birthday, since it’s six months away from my real birthday in March. Then I looked up “half-birthday” on Wikipedia and apparently, the six month thing is off. In order to be precise, you’re supposed to add 182.5 days to your birthday and that day will [...]

Celebrate Good Times, C’mon!

In the early days of the American Revolution, a ragtag bunch of militia men from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island took control of a couple of hills surrounding the city of Boston. Upon discovery of this, British troops launched an attack on the wayward colonists on June 17, 1775 and thus gave future [...]