Year: 2021

“Black Wednesday,” January 6, 2021, will long be remembered and written about as the day that American democracy faltered. As time passes, pundits and partisans will take sides to analyze and spin the event to suit their cause. But make no mistake about it, this single day was the end result of one single vote…

Frankly, I don’t know what to write. I’m stunned! January 6, 2021, will go down in infamy as the day that America lost the high ground and with it the last of its innocence. I vacillate between anger and embarrassment. What do I say; what can I say? The Trump incited storming of the Capitol…

As a “naturalized” citizen of Georgia, I have never been prouder of my adopted state. Whatever happens going forward, the state has made great strides in stepping up and doing the right thing by all its citizens. The results of Tuesday’s election are a move to the center, the place where, in my opinion, American…

Tony Sousa, 1933 – 2021 I was not a lifelong friend of Tony’s, but I knew him as a friend for more than fifteen years. During this time I learned much from him about being a better person as well as from his rich life experiences. That is why I frequently used the honorific Spanish…

Let me see if I understand where we are in our politics. The president is claiming he won the election, and his lieutenants are saying so, too. Further, much of the citizenry – that’s us – are going along with this. And the electoral college vote was 306 for Biden and 270 for Trump. The…

January 5th, 2021, may very well be repeated for the next four years. The run-off election for the two Georgia Senate seats is possibly a bellwether for where our politics is heading, at least for the foreseeable future. Like you, I don’t know what’s going to happen and I’m uncomfortable with the uncertainty. The choice…

I have never paid much attention to New Year’s Resolutions as I’ve never really believed in them. I knew that I would probably never keep them or that I would only make those that were fun and easy to pull off  Further, I don’t believe most people keep them either. But, if I were to…