When COVID hit last March, my wife, Barbara and I, like a lot of older people with health conditions, pretty much isolated ourselves in our home here in Central Florida. That isolation included separating from our daughter, her husband, and our...
Read moreBlack Lives Matter: St. Augustine, Florida 1906 Onward
The wonderful picture above was taken in the depth of the Jim Crow era. The date, sometime in 1906 and the location was the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. And yet, somehow, despite living under the crushing legal and cultural racism of...
Read moreDeSantis Endangers Florida Population and Beyond
Incredibly, our state governor refuses to protect the people he has sworn to serve and is willing to allow the spread of COVID-19 beyond our borders. Ron DeSantis endangers Florida and is making it the primary hot-spot for the virus in the United...
Read moreEnd Entrenched Racist Policing in the U.S. Now!
Racist policing, whether it emanates from a cop on the beat, a police chief, a police union official, an FBI agent or the President of the United States, must be torn from our society by its festering roots, now. The horrible, unforgivable death...
Read moreCOVID Virus Inspiration Courtesy of the Earth
During this most difficult time of the Coronavirus pandemic, I have been keeping myself busy by teaching my 5-year-old granddaughter about geography on my iPhone via FaceTime. She and her parents only live 15 miles away but, we haven’t been able...
Read more100 Words Describing Trump’s Leadership??
In this extraordinarily dangerous time of COVID-19, President Trump’s leadership skills have been on full display, sadly so. Protection of the American people is a president’s #1 priority. Up until this election year of 2020, Donald...
Read moreGeorgia Trail of Tears Ceremony
Sculptor Steve Stone would like to invite you to an important Georgia Trail of Tears ceremony. At 1 PM on Saturday, March 21, 2020 the Mount Oglethorpe Foundation will dedicate Steve’s granite masterpiece to all those Native Americans who were so...
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