A Southern Boy Visits His Home
Reflections on my Southern Roots
The cliché is that “you can take the boy out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the boy.”
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Thoughts At Large
Witnessing Global Warming
June, 2023
Global warming is happening every day. I happened to witness it firsthand during our recent visit to Svalbard.
Why I love my job
A couple of decades ago, my wife Susan and I worked as entertainers on cruise ships. Often the entertainers sat together at mealtimes. A common observation was that the job of being a comedian was the most difficult of all the entertainers. Having to be funny for ten or fifteen minutes before a group of elderly strangers (as well as having to avoid any jokes that might be interpreted as obscene, irreligious, or politically incorrect) was difficult indeed...
Reflections on My Travel Affinity & Why Beliefs Don't Matter
Why do I like to travel? Maybe it started with the fact that my parents took me to see many of the country's national parks before I was twelve. I've told many friends that the single most life-changing thing I ever did was to leave the security of Columbus, Georgia at age twenty and enroll at the university in Kiel, Germany. I didn't know where I was going when I made that move, but I did know what I was getting away from—the prospect of a constricted life in Columbus, Georgia. . .