To my fellow Americans, wherever you are in the world, Happy Independence Day. 🙂
On This Fourth Of July 2019
The 2018 National Birthday
What Americans celebrate today is not national perfection, but independence as a nation-state.
“From one End of this Continent to the other”
Happy U.S. Independence . . . weekend! Future U.S. president John Adams, who had persuaded the younger and largely unknown Virginian Thomas Jefferson to draft the independence declaration because – among other […]
Circle Of Thirteen
Happy Fourth of July!: Uh, sorry. Of course that’s not the current version of the U.S. flag. I’m spending way too much time lately in the 1790s. 😉
“Land of lovely dames”
A bit more “history.” Please don’t run for cover. I think you’ll find this amusing – especially given this is 4th of July weekend in the U.S.: That excerpt is from a […]
Happy Independence Day, 2014
A few thoughts on today’s U.S. Independence Day. It’s an extra-special one for us because it’s my wife’s first as a U.S. citizen. And she is – as you know if you […]
