Thoughts and Observations:

  • Hooray for Harriet!!!

    The U.S. Treasury took a while, didn’t it?   Well..at least the ball is rolling. Sometime around 2020 it will unveil a new design for the $20 bill…with abolitionist Harriet Tubman front and center..literally.   An historic move to say the least.  It has been a mere century since a woman (Martha Washington) appeared on American paper  Read more

  • You Can’t Spell ‘Menace In The Kitchen’ Without ‘MEN’

    My wife posed a question to me recently.  I will attempt to paraphrase. “Why is it”, she asked, “that when men cook in the kitchen, they always wind up emptying the cabinet of every single pot, pan and plastic container?” It does open the door to those marathon dish washing sessions. Your dinner guest might Read more

  • Isn’t 108 Years Enough?

    As much as I would love to…I can’t bring myself to pick my favorite baseball team to win the 2016 World Series.  It would be the first title since 1908. That’s right.  I am a Chicago Cubs fan! I know what you’re thinking.  How does a guy from South Carolina (whose only experience with the Read more

  • Houston, We Have A (Grand Old) Problem…Spelled T-R-U-M-P!

    The trip to Houston was a quick one.  Out Tuesday…back Wednesday.   Side note:  it marks the third time in my life I’ve flown into an airport named for a president (JFK, Reagan National in DC, and now Bush 41). I was there to cover Ted Cruz who is hoping Republicans will…at some point..wake up and Read more

  • Campaign 2016: Feeling The ‘Bern’ In Vermont

    The whole time I was in Burlington, Vermont (okay..three days), I couldn’t get out of my head the opening to the CBS series ‘Newhart’..which was set in the Green Mountain State.  I was sent there to cover the phenomenon that is Bernie Sanders as the ‘Super Tuesday’ contests played out.  Of the 11 contests decided, Read more

  • Welcome To The Revamp!

    Here it is! I have to admit…this took a little less time than I expected it to.  I wanted to maintain the spirit of ‘For Why??!!’ but expand the focus to include  stories that I cover every day — whether irreverent or not. Then all of a sudden it hit me.   It came in the Read more