Apex, North Carolina, is a modest town—or at least it proudly thinks it is. There are somegood people in Apex. But, like any growing burb, Apex has its rough sorts, its tough sorts, its gruff,grammar-challenged sorts. Like any other citizen consumed with worry for our withering way withwords, I do my duty. I am a… Continue reading Grammar Friday
Ring! Ring! Ring! “Uh, hello. Who is this and uh … dost thou knowest that of which ye speaketh?” “What?” screeched a familiar, old, raspy voice. “Aunt Ruth? Is that you?” I asked, mildy annoyed. My clock was displaying 2:14 a.m. “My voice may be familiar, but it’s not old and it’s not raspy, my… Continue reading My new first grammar question
ABBVIE 951I’ve been involved in this clinical trial for the last three years (since the beginning).What is it? Aggvie-951 is the injection of the drug that turns into dopamine (when it crosses the blood-brain barrier). The injection is sub-cutaneous—that is, just below the skin—and somehow these little dopamine-wannabes end up in the blood stream and… Continue reading ABBVIE-951 Clinical Trial
My Early Years as a Husker The first game I watched as a Nebraska Cornhusker fan—my parents are NU grads, my grandmother was a NU grad, various aunts, uncles, and cousins (and second cousins, etc.) are NU grads. And my great-grandfather received his Law degree from NU. So it kind of runs in the family.… Continue reading NU, OU, and the Big Eight
I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention. You either know this or you don’t. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me back up and say that it’s well-known that the dream of every young American boy is to grow up to be a great major league baseball player. You might be either a… Continue reading The American Dream
So I had a dream the other night and it all led back to a scandal in Lincoln, Nebraska — home of the Cornhuskers — where the NU fan base was infiltrated by a devious Oklahoma resident. His goal was to bring down the Husker Dynasty. (As an aside, I checked the data and from… Continue reading Just a Dream
Alaska Photos My wife and I visit with our grandkids as often as possible, and we’ve been doing some traveling (including Alaska four or five times in the past couple of years). We love Alaska and would move there in a heartbeat if it weren’t so far from our kids and grandkids (except for the… Continue reading Gallery1
You will find more descriptions at Gennesaret Press (Gennesaret is used in the Bible, and it’s another name for the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on the water and calmed the storm.)
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! So … this isn’t really my first post, but it’s true that I don’t really know what I’m doing. I posted articles year ago, back before I discovered I didn’t have enough time. It takes a lot of time raising… Continue reading Hello world!