by Bary Fleet | Jan 23, 2018 | Writings
I looked at Facebook this morning, and read a post by one of my cousins observing that – as he scanned the posts that came across his page – there were two themes that emerged: 1) The Democrats are responsible for the shut-down of the government! and 2) The...
by Bary Fleet | Jan 19, 2018 | Writings
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. He is remembered as the consummate advocate for civil rights, particularly people of color. Among other things, he is remembered for the “I Have a Dream” speech he made, as he stood...
by Bary Fleet | Jan 9, 2018 | Writings
The night before a major snow storm was forecast to arrive, I noticed that my gas gauge was just above empty. A little voice in my head prodded me, “Go get your tank filled now.” I thought about it, then decided that I was doing other things and that I could get it...
by Bary Fleet | Jan 4, 2018 | Writings
I’m sitting here at the dining room table, looking out at the snow that has already accumulated (see shadows at bottom of the doors), watching the birds furiously come and go amid this blizzard …. thinking “At some point, I’m going to have to go out and shovel all of...
by Bary Fleet | Jan 1, 2018 | Writings
I first noticed it when I was ten or so: Every New Year’s Day, my dad would take a sheet of graph paper and across the top, each line represented a day and along the side, each line represented his weight. His end goal was always to get his weight down to 185 lbs. …...
by Bary Fleet | Aug 14, 2017 | Writings
School started this past week for some of my grandchildren in Virginia. I know it seems awfully early for us, but 180 days is 180 days, and they will be out by the end of May. There were lots of significant changes for them, and I called to see how their first...
