As part of a large family history project I’m working on I’ve been reading a work copywritten in 1847 called “The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life,” by Edward Z.C. Judson, who worked under the pen name Ned Buntline. Buntline was in his time an extremely popular and prodigious writer. […]
I was at my local YMCA on the exercise bike doing what I can to keep my heart healthy when I heard a number of older gentlemen near me talking about the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. These men, and sometimes a few women, come often to the Y and banter while they exercise. […]
I had been wanting to visit Ukraine since soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Due to a number of circumstances, I was not able to go, and then for only a little over a week, until late December of 2024. I would have certainly liked to stay longer but with work obligations […]
In this day and age where everyone has their own particularized news feed, it is nearly impossible to discern what the prevailing wisdom is, or even more so what the mass of us are being fed as far as what the prevailing wisdom is. With that caveat, it seems to me at least that Elon […]
My Dad, John Boeman, passed away in the summer of 1998. My Mom found him that Sunday morning at his computer at his desk in his tiny office tucked away in the corner of the basement. He had had a massive stroke. I don’t know what specifically he was working on, but chances are pretty […]
The news media today is a vast wilderness of conflicting “facts” and often times hidden agendas, or not so hidden agendas. There are so many sources of information on such a wide variety of subjects. Some of those source cover one subject well, but not others. Others are consistently misleading, or at best superficial to […]
There are many ways a leader can lose the ability to lead. What follows is, in my thoughts, one of the most common. We are all decision makers. We base our decisions on the information available to us. All other things being equal, the more accurate the information available to us prior to making a […]
I’ve been working on a family history project revolving around my great-grandmother, Zetta Curtis. The catalyst behind the project was some letters my Aunt Bertha lent me about 25 years ago between Zetta and two of her sisters, Lottie and Alice, written from about 1894 to 1901. I’ve worked on the project from time to […]
Balaam of Pethor was one of the few non-Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament. His story is in some ways convoluted but the lessons to be learned from it are quite simple. A prophet to be a prophet must strive diligently to speak the word the Lord gives him to speak, not the words that […]
After Vladamir Putin ordered the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, one of the first things the Biden Administration did was offer to evacuate the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. To which President Zelensky reportedly replied, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.” While many other politicians would […]