Category: Modern American History

• Rainy Days and Mondays…

  When I woke up yesterday it was lightly raining and a cloudy cold morning. I love this Carpenters Song, by the way. I grew up on their music because of my parents. My Dad likes it just as much as my Mom does I have heard them both humming and singing along with me. Flashbacks.…

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  November 1, 2024

  Modern American History, Unique Prayers

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• Seeing the Heart of Melania

  While resting a little bit before starting dinner I got to catch up on some you tube videos. Last night before I went to bed I caught the breaking news about the New York Mayor very, very interesting with the timing of that indictment. The first video I watched though, was from the interview of…

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  September 26, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• The Timing

  As I said yesterday my foot has been giving me some fits. On the whole I have learned how to deal with my foot pain. However, I’m stumped right now. We have had some colder mornings, but they haven’t been lasting very long. Since last Thursday night something has just felt different. I can’t put…

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  September 17, 2024

  Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Loving Reagan

  There are different themes I found from the movie Reagan yesterday. It took sleeping overnight to marinate on the two-hour long biopic and some research this morning. Two books came to mind this morning when I wanted to look inside Ronald Reagan’s life. Both are written by the same author, C. Brian Kelly, “The Best…

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  September 4, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Modern American History

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• My First Thoughts…

  Tears. Laughter. Love. American Pride. Watching this movie was quite an experience. I am still digesting the couple hours of sitting. It was a bit surreal because we have not watched a movie in a movie theater in years. I can’t even remember the last movie we watched in any theater in the last 5…

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  September 3, 2024

  Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

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• Timing and Strategy

  The historian in me loves how this is playing out. Of course I wasn’t born yet in 1963 when JFK was shot in Dallas. However, the Kennedy Family in America is close to royalty and my interest in this family was also induced by my love in reading about history. Especially PT 109 intrigued me.…

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  August 23, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Modern American History

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• A Supply Run

  This evening I made a supply run. A project needs 4 colors that I don’t have Plus another project needed another color, but I ended up being able to change the colors around a little bit. However, knowing I was going on a run I decided to add that color as well. I think for…

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  August 22, 2024

  American Heritage, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• “Stolen Valor”

  Last Thursday was the day that news really began pouring out about the potential Vice Presidential nominee chosen for the Democrat ticket. The opposing Vice Presidential nominee, sitting Senator J.D Vance had even accused Walz of “stolen valor.” A major accusation thrown and major snafus made by the man accused of such a thing. Perhaps…

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  August 14, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Modern American History

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• Going… Old School

  Last Thursday our internet went on and off a few different times from noontime to sometime during the evening. When it came time to slow down for the night Mom had been asking me to put a movie on. So since our dumb television wasn’t acting as smart I decided to look through my DVD…

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  August 13, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• The Ebb and Flow of Life

  The Sunday morning I got to sing a solo recently was a big high for me. It felt really good to be in my wheelhouse once again. Music was my first love, first passion and church ministry that came naturally for me with my family. The last two years everything has been difficult. I tried…

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  August 2, 2024

  Bible Reflections, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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