It’s New Years again. The odometer of our lives rolls over and there doesn’t seem to be anyway to slow it down or stop it. The brake pedal has gone spongey and the accelerator is stuck. We never have enough time. Instead, we live in a time famine. I sense someone has hit the fast … More Time Famine
The young know no limits. … More The Spring Races
Whatever you do, don’t work the middle school dance night. … More John Hartman Patterson: The Dude Abides
Fr. Karol Józef Wojtyła drove an ancient Ford Escort with a 1.1 liter engine and a 4 on the floor manual shifter. He kept a small tin for mints on the dashboard with an image of Our Lady on the lid. In this most holy expression of unassuming transport, he completed the journey from Poland … More The Pope’s Old Ford: Lessons in Simplicity
So I have this dream. It is night and I am living alone in the house my grandparents built during the Second World War. It has been raining, in real life a rare thunder and lightening storm has blown through the Seattle area over night. I look out the window and see my car is … More The Hindenberg Ticket
By Robert Frost In this bit of a lawyer’s road review I wish to dedicate this poem to our daughter Rachel J. Patterson. Most of us from around these parts graduate from High School, maybe go to college but nearly always return to the headwaters of our family origin, a town a lot like Everett … More The Road Not Taken
“I say this to Congress, we have to stand up to Putin. Send me a bipartisan national security bill. History is watching. If the United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk. Europe will be at risk. The free world will be at risk…My message to President Putin: We will not walk away. … More Defend Ukraine Defend Ourselves
In the Second World War, young Russian women, often just girls, would volunteer to fight at the front against the Germans. If assigned to a tank medical corps, their position was to ride on the back of a tank into battle while the male soldiers rode inside driving the tank and firing the weapons. Russian … More Baby Boomers: Born at the Right Time and Place.
Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8, died this November aged 95. He had a tremendous career in the military and aerospace, but nothing he left behind is quite as compelling as his greetings on Christmas Eve 1968 from orbit around the Moon. Earthrise, taken by Apollo 8 crew member William Anders, Christmas, 1968 At the … More A Christmas Greeting from Outer Space
Truckasaurus Rex is just the most recent manifestation of how a civilization memorializes its perceived heroism. Like the Colossus of Rhodes it too is doomed. Meanwhile life on the freeway is a bit like the science fiction film The Matrix. … More Truckasaurus Rex: The Colossus of Roads
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