If you want to truly understand the soul of America, start with the Super Bowl.      (Hold it! The game isn’t for two more weeks, why are we discussing this today? Hold that thought…)      As everybody knows, the length of a football game is 60 minutes. And most of…

And so we come to the dead of winter.      Most folks in my generation who grew up near New England or the Rockies – I can claim a bit of both – were raised to some degree on skis. It was tradition, just something that you did, usually because…

Here’s the how some things get remembered, and some do not.      Robert E. Lee was born on the 19th of January in 1807. At the end of the Civil War, when he surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, he probably feared that he might…

As we end the first week of 2023, I’m sure you would agree that resolutions are notoriously slippery things.      I’m proof of that, as evidenced by a resolution I made to my wife way back in 2006. I told her I would attempt to do something I had never…