The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in February 2026, aims to fundamentally shift the landscape of federal elections. Like 80% of Americans (we are told), I believe that only US citizens should be allowed to vote. It’s a pretty simple concept. When we lived in Belgium, […]
The Night Visitors
The night visitors came into my dreams last week and brought back a happening from years ago on a dusty road in Indochina. It was on a Saturday, I think…we didn’t pay much attention to days then. A truck had run over a mine in the road, and the Vietnamese engineers were trying to fill […]
Surfing in Munich
Speaking of history, I came across this web page I created in 2004. It must have been one of the very first I ever made. There was no WordPress back then, and I was a purist, so I wanted to learn HTML from scratch. We’ve come a long way, but the subject was quite interesting! […]
Once a Crusader
A good friend who lived through an experience I can never truly understand wrote this poignant story. I hope you enjoy it… The year is 1955: His story begins on a Saturday afternoon in the old Princess Theater in Paris, Tennessee. On the screen is a war movie about the defeat of the French in […]