So many people whining about what others do, or don’t do, drove me to write this piece. As if all the complaining was going to change anything. Once a catholic, always a catholic. Same goes for all the other religions. There are exceptions, of course, but let’s face it, people have their minds made up, […]
Language is how we communicate. In this country, it so happens to be English. So why is it that so few Latinos bother to learn English? I don’t get it. Or maybe I do. If you’re from China or Greece, you have to learn English, at least if you want to live in Denton, after […]
Have you noticed how nobody seems to be responsible anymore? It’s never a person with a name, it’s always They. “They” are the unnamed, unknown strangers that seem to be everywhere, basically run things from the dirty little poorly lit cubbyholes that I imagine they inhabit somewhere, and are hardly ever mentioned. Who closed the […]
I know. Lately my articles have been about war and the futility of war. Not all of them are a waste of time, blood, and resources, however, some can actually be justified, same as acting in self-defense. WW2 is a good example. In the face of a strongly fortified and well-armed Germany who wanted to […]
Afghanistan seems to be in the news again and lives are still being lost . . . and for what? Nothing as in zero, has been achieved over the last twenty years at the cost of a king’s ransom, other than creating some dedicated enemies. And I don’t blame the Afghans for hating us: I […]
Sometimes I read something that is so bad it makes me cringe. I don’t normally cringe, it’s not my style, but occasionally it happens and I have to say something or pop. Here is a letter to the editor of the DRC with my thoughts on an essay written by Ramiro Valdez regarding immigration. Not […]
OK, I admit it. Learning a language is not easy and the more so because of all the idioms that we take for granted, use every day, and pay no more attention to than the man in the moon: kick the bucket, blue in the face, out of the blue, hold your horses, put a […]
Birds, they are all around us and for the most part become part of the landscape, so much so they remain in the background. But not always. In Louisiana I ran into two that left an impression. Well, okay, I’ve seen condors before, and know a little something about birds, their habits and their evolution, […]
I read a lot and a lot of what read unless it’s the crossword puzzle or the police blotter, turn out to be complaints. Objections, criticisms, or just plain bitching, whatever you call it, constitutes a large part of what is printed or said these days, what in reality turns out to be nothing more […]
I have a lot of good friends in Latin America and it’s too bad we don’t see each other as often as we’d like to. Antonio is one of them. He calls once or twice a year and whenever I fly south, he’s one of the friends I see. I met him on a fishing […]