I could not let America's 250th birthday pass without some comment. I love this country, but frankly this is not the country that I grew up in. I'm not sure exactly where we went wrong and although it would be very easy to blame the current administration and the whole MAGA movement, that is to easy of a solution and not entirely true. What ills America today is a combination of things. A combination of errors, bad decisions, mistakes that created a cascading effort. We simply are not the country we thought we were and the proverbial chickens have come home roost. Nor do I have a solution. So why write about America's 250th birthday at all? Because I believe in this country, despite where we are currently. Because I am a student of history and we have seen all this before, and we have seen the solution to it as well. Because after much thought about the state of the world and reading ...
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.