[April 18, 2024] His face was wrinkled and tanned; he was thin, of medium height, with blue eyes and thinning gray hair, and wearing thick glasses. Douglas James Satterfield sat in his favorite chair overlooking the front of his farmhouse, smoking an unfiltered Camel cigarette. His farm was located south of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, near the Arkansas River. … Read More »
[April 17, 2024] We are introduced to “The Good Men Project” with the subhead “The conversation no one else is having.” In a piece titled “20 Pieces of Advice for Men in Their 20x”, author Peter Ross provides some much-needed advice taken from men’s experiences to help men not waste a critical decade in their twenties. Don’t Settle:… Read More »
[April 16, 2024] Sometimes being lucky works. I recently discovered a social media site called REDUXX: Feminist News and Opinion. Their media was launched in January 2022 to create a pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding platform that provides “quality news and opinion on the stories the mainstream media ignores.” That got my attention. As I’ve written many times, the media… Read More »
[April 15, 2024] One of the lessons from life is that we must be alert to the beauty in life, for there is little of greater value. Such a statement may seem nonsensical and naïve, but to see beauty for its value is on the same intellectual plane of discriminating between good and evil. This is a form… Read More »
[April 14, 2024] Yesterday, a small group of local volunteers spent the morning repairing the fencing of an old Civil War cemetery. Buried there are veterans of the 25th Regiment Colored Troops and, it is believed, members of their families. Although I wrote about my discovery of the cemetery, its location is at a busy intersection and is… Read More »
[April 13, 2024] A simple question haunts me about receiving advice from rich people – Is their advice actually useful? Elon Musk, a businessman and investor, is one of the wealthiest men in the world and is known to be highly successful in those areas he chooses to operate. Musk was interviewed by Lex Fridman, who asked him… Read More »
[April 11, 2024] In the early 1960s, the American economy was not doing as well as one might believe. Things were tough; the baby boomer generation was everywhere, and although jobs were plentiful, they paid almost nothing. For a kid looking to earn some money, forget it. We had to compete with adults looking for work, and potential… Read More »
[April 10, 2024] I was behind on the count at bat with two strikes and zero balls. It was also the bottom of the ninth inning, and my team was behind one run with my teammate at the hot corner, third base and potentially the tying run. On my Little League baseball team, we called this being in… Read More »
[April 7, 2024] I was recently asked to give a sermon to a church congregation near my home. This is one thing I’ve never done: give a religious sermon. What follows is my message, and although the following is in narrative form, I only used this as a notes. I think it is better to speak by looking… Read More »
[April 4, 2024] My boss, Mr. Amato – also called “Mr. A.” – ran his gasoline service station as if his life depended upon it, and in a way, it did because the livelihood of his wife and seven children stemmed from selling gasoline to customers. I was a new gas jockey at his station in my sophomore… Read More »