Youthful Recollections: SUMMERTIME VI Next in a series for The Record of Wilkes By Russ Pearson (Continued from last week): Then came the summer of 1962… the summer following my freshman year at Brevard College. Not only was I a year older but presumably a year wiser and more sophisticated. An...
Youthful Recollections: The Best of Seasons By Russ Pearson Well, it’s that time of year! The season I look forward to more than any other and finally it’s come around again. No, I am not talking about autumn…although that probably is my favorite of the four celestial seasons…I’m talking...
This exchange developed in the responses from my Ben Franklin turkey blog, and it's hard to read there, plus I thought it was getting interesting enough to post.... Lightfoot Letters wrote I try to adhere to the basic principals of liberalism noted below. I'm sure we would have more ideas and...
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it By D.A. Blyler It all starts one quiet afternoon at the brew-pub. I'm sitting with my associate Bobby, enjoying a pint of the house ale, when Stephen Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)...
'A capitalist economy in which the capitalists have no capital won't work. Why is there no capital? Because the feds take it.' Bill Bonner 10/8/09 'I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say...
