As most regular readers know, this blog was established nine years ago as largely an extension of the Personal Daily Journal of Yours Truly. It has become a tradition during this, the last few hours of the calendar year to reflect on the twelve months gone by and recall fondly or not-so-much as the case…
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A year of leading the way
Beginning the 1st of July of last year and ending with the 30th of June, it was a year of leading from the front for Yours Truly. Yes, I have completed a one-year term as President of the Rotary Club of Tulsa Will Rogers. Commonly known as Will Rogers Rotary, it is one of the…
Continue ReadingThe Vietnam War + 50
Fifty years ago today, March 29th, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left the Republic of Vietnam. Along with the troops who made their grand exit after turning over their duties to ARVN forces came the last group of Prisoners of War. This marked the official end of U.S. involvement in the armed conflict that…
Continue ReadingOperation Homecoming + 50
One of the most enduring memories of the early adolescent years of my youth is the end of direct U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. This was heralded by the return of the first group of 591 American Prisoners of War held by North Vietnam which happened fifty years ago today. The longest held among…
Continue Reading2022 in the rearview
It has become a tradition of Yours Truly in the waning hours of the year to look back on the past twelve months. I don’t know how many individual personal record keepers incorporate this as a practice, but this is when I like to recollect and analyze where we and the World has been in…
Continue ReadingSuffering the penalty of greed, excess and hubris
It has been said that the effects of alcohol when consumed to excess is its own punishment. A bad hangover may be a justly earned and fitting reward for one individual who, by choice, overindulged in drink. Fortunately for the rest of us who said “NO” to another round or to the bottle entirely, the…
Continue ReadingVolume 47: A cataloged first-person account of 2021 CE
Measurement of time in terms of days, months and years is a manmade metric, a means of identifying intangible benchmarks relative to and relevant only to the existence of the human species. These arbitrary milestones have long since become living universal fixtures in the lives of the descendants of those who invented them. The ceremonial…
Continue ReadingArriving at a new normal
At the one year anniversary mark of America and the World shutting down in response to the rampant spread of a lethal contagion, new leadership working with the required scientific progress has humanity almost ready to emerge into a new post-Covid future. We may not have a clear idea of where we are going, but…
Continue ReadingThe significance of finishing Volume 46
It is by pure coincidence that the election of the 46th President of the United States happened in the year of the 46th volume of the personal daily journal kept by Yours Truly. It is also just a mere coincidence that the vast majority of the preceding forty-five volumes of that personal daily journal chronicle…
Continue ReadingThe priceless benefit of a clear conscience
There are two absolutes which apply to all members of the human species: 1.) the heart of every living one of us will eventually stop beating and 2.) we will be expected to pay our way legally via taxation or illegally however we can until it does. Beyond those two givens there are no guarantees…
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