Beginning in January of 2016, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) began achieving impressive victories on the battlefield. Analysts attribute this to Russian air power. They’re wrong. In reality the Arab League worked out an arrangement with Bashar al-Assad that would avoid the horrors that have plagued Iraq since March of 2003. However, Assad has reverted…
To tread the air above the din
February 20, 2015
I’m not much connected to the world anymore. Maybe I should say I’m not much connected to worldly concerns. What I long for is the ability to tread the air above the din. That’s a lyric from one of the best Led Zepplin songs, “Achilles Last Stand.” It was an April morning when they told…
Orphans
October 18, 2013
Today it finally hit me that my brothers, my sister, and I are orphans. Eric still has his mother, but the rest of us are parentless. We’re all fifty or thereabouts, so it’s not like we’re now helpless and terrified. I find it incomprehensible more than anything else. Though Mom and Dad died for nine…