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  President Washington was the first to grant a pardon.  The purpose of pardons was to grant mercy, correct judicial errors, and promote nat...

Buddies Have you noticed just how intelligent animals can be, and how sometimes they have buddies, like these two that we watched for severa...

Recently I came across a campaign speech for the presidency.  The candidate chose to make one of his first speeches in Kansas.  His theme wa...

      I have sometimes wondered how Presidents feel on the day they leave the Presidency.  Are they satisfied with the decisions they made? ...

    A regular follower of my blog reminded me that I had not included the ways in which those earliest people to occupy the Northen Hemisphe...

 My husband and I are gifting our collection of the Wizard of Oz to Fort Hays State University, and I am going through all of the collection...

 We are in the midst of the winter holiday season.  It is a good time to reflect on the special nature of our history.  Certainly, the tradi...

       There has been so much reporting on the news about immigration, a topic I assumed was a distant matter in my own family.  However, on...

  Was there really a Thanksgiving Meeting between English colonists and Wampanoag people?  Apparently yes, but it was not necessarily what w...

The First Amendment  Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging ...

My blog last spring titled "Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" addressed the upheaval when President Donald Trump named himse...

Sometimes the ideas for my blog just pop into my head with no explanation.  Last night we were returning from a wonderful musical performanc...

 While I was browsing online, I came across an article titled "Are we worse than people used to be.?"   Psychologists Adam Mastroc...

  My Older Brother, back when a Senior could drive the school bus I must begin with my credentials, so you will not think that I am just som...

 As an attorney, I have often talked with young people considering a career as a lawyer, some of whom had already been accepted and were ask...

A World War One Poster   Recently I came across a letter to President John F. Kennedy, preserved in the National archives.  A young man wrot...

First, do some old-fashioned research!  When I watched a student sit-in on the television, I could only wonder how informed those students w...

Pinocchio       I decided that at a time when there is no imminent upcoming Election I could write a blog without it seeming to be about a p...

Katherine Graham  Freedom of the press has always been essential to making America work.  Information from more sources is essential to keep...

The Gerrymander   Some time ago I posted a blog on gerrymandering, primarily sharing the history.  This blog addresses the challenges and im...

 I confess that I place taking better care of our planet on a higher level than many people do...maybe more than most.  I think that it is a...

  Most of us are familiar with 2001, a Space Odessey, but we may not realize how many other films have also involved Androids who became a c...

 A few years ago, I blogged about AI.  I was concerned about kids using it to cheat on assigned compositions.  I bemoaned the impact of arti...

What really matters!     I have written often about Presidents, but far less often about the Presidents' wives.  Many things impact the ...

Do we face a setting sun? In a recent editorial in The Atlantic, David Brooks wrote "Today we live in a world in which many, if not mos...