This Side of Fifty

     June 11: I am visiting professor in China. Even though I am not really a bucket list kind of guy, doing something like this would ...

Almost 1 Million at the Cavaliers Parade (Lynn Ischay / The Plain Dealer)      The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Championship on Sund...

I am at the top of the 2 in the back row at about 11 o'clock.       I don't have a bucket list. I wrote about this in my May 201...

     The day is about to end. I am just beginning to write my April 24th letter. There is no hope of getting it done this evening. I hope...

From thedailypedia.com        I am sitting here typing this blog while t he rest of the world, well the US, seems to tuned into PBS to w...

     Over the past few years, I have kept hearing that ISIS uses social media to attract, recruit, and radicalize young Moslems in the ...

Note the crack at the base of the heel but no noticeable wear on the walking surfaces of the sole.       The other night I noticed dirt ...

Ottoman 5th Army Positions April 1915       I just finished watching the Russell Crowe film, The Water Diviner .  It debuted earlier thi...

     In my Desire to Catch-Up: I began writing this musing e-letter in July of 2015. It is now January 3rd and I am just finishing it. Th...