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We recently had our local “Municipal” elections this past November 7th for our five Town Commissioners. We had only six candidates running for these five positions, and three of the candidates were incumbent commissioners… Nationally, incumbents are reelected 95% of...

When Mao Zedong was losing his iron grip on China in 1966, after his disastrous “Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, in which thirty to forty Million people, mostly Peasants, died from starvation, forced labor and executions…
To consolidate his power once again…

My sister had married a Raleigh boy and in 1993 strongly recommended that I check out “Oriental, the Sailing Capital” of North Carolina, as a possible location to build my Empire fixing boats. I was dead tired when I finally found the tiny town of Oriental at the very...

There are three foundational emotional bulwarks (defensive walls) that every single human being has experienced in one form or another, over the course of their lives.
The goal of these bulwarks/defensive walls is not to keep an enemy out… but instead to shield us from feeling own emotional lives and hurt, painful feelings.
It is based on a primitive survival instinct which makes it possible for us to venture out of the cave to hunt for food… After almost being eaten by the food we were hunting yesterday….

My lifelong friend Sean, took my motorcycle for a ride on beautiful fall day and did not return… I heard the fire/rescue whistle (1981) tooting out the location of an accident or a fire and thought nothing of it… Turns out Sean T-boned a car who pulled out in front of him doing an illegal U-turn on US Hwy # 1, after picking her children up from school.