Memphasis > A General Invitation, Revisited
July 16th, 2015
COME ON BACK TO ELMWOOD, GENERAL FORREST. I first issued that invitation in 2013 and while we haven’t yet heard from the General, we’ve heard from just about everybody else. The invitation stands because – as it has been for some time – it’s past time. Come on home, General, and bring the missus. The family’s waiting. Whatever anybody ...
Memphasis > It’s The Law
July 9th, 2015
THE LAW, AND I QUOTE. Oh, the outrage! Across the nation, people have reacted to the laws passed and validated by the courts, their liberty threatened, the Constitution violated, the republic at risk. For example, the Foundation for Economic Education begins with a quote from Benjamin Franklin, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little ...
Memphasis > My Kind Of Crazy
July 2nd, 2015
CRAZY LIKE CHISCA. Lauren Crews told me that people think he’s crazy. After all, he paddled a canoe from the Twin Cities to New Orleans – just him and his dog. He rode a bike to New Orleans, too, all the way down Highway 61 in the summer, the heat driving him dizzy into ditches. After all, for more than a decade he’s been trying to develop property ...
Memphasis > In It Together
June 25th, 2015
WE’RE RELATED. For a few years, Nora was in a handbell choir at our church. The choir was invited to perform here and there. Being an Episcopal church, those trips were more a celebration than a solemn occasion, and, like the service itself, food and drink were central to the issue at hand. I tagged along because the here and there included roux-full places like ...
Memphasis > The Irish In Us
June 18th, 2015
BOOM. HERE’S TO IRELAND. Recently, Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. Ireland. Stereotypically, a country where conservative is a matter of degree not choice, where killing each other over religion isn’t current news but DNA, where progress is measured in pints. Boom. Many of my fellow boomers wonder what ...
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