Human beings can be brutal creatures. We kill strangers; we kill family; we drop bombs on each other’s families. Yet there are people who, despite the horrors, make our tiny blue planet just […]
We Humans—So Horrific, So Terrific
I Was a Marine. I Was a Cop. And I Reject President Trump
I love you, America. I love your Constitution, it’s Bill of Rights. I believe they are Divinely inspired. I love those who served to keep you free. I love those who died […]
“Now I Make up for it.” Lisa Wong Esposito
This is about Christmas, but it’s also about the thing, the thing in all of us, whether we realize it or not. Christmas wasn’t a day of gifts or decorations at Lisa […]
They do it Again and Again
Last year, thirteen-year-old Brianna Hood, along with her dad and niece, was at Lindell Beach in Long Beach, NY. Brianna went into the water on her own and a rip current pulled […]
Once a Marine…
I always wanted to be a Marine. The Corps was born, as the Continental Marines, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, on November 10th, 1775. Of course, the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed […]
Backyards and Bombers
I’m only fifteen minutes away from Jones Beach, but I never attended an air show there. I haven’t experienced a moving military air show since B-24s and B-29s flew in formation over […]
Do I Have Fancy Clothes? This—Is My Thing.
Lisa’s German Shepherds, Rocky and Mimi, sounded like they’d like some tasty leg of Lee. They soon calmed down. I spoke with Lisa Wong Esposito at her home on Long Beach Blvd […]
Eric Couldn’t Be Near Hate; He Said it Was Infectious
Hedy Page only wants to focus on the good in the world today. She attributes her focus on kindness and love to Eric. Hedy invited me to her home for a visit. […]
When We Come Together
As a young Marine turned subway cop in ’66, the ’69 Woodstock gathering of flower people turned me off. It was essential to just support our troops. But as the decades passed […]
Benches, Bombs and Baloney
Albert Einstein: “May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back […]
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