Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since that time. I’m older. My fingers are bent a little more from arthritis. I have more grandchildren. But many things also remain the same. I’m still living my dream of writing. I continue to learn from history. And I hope I’ve grown a little better as a person and as a writer. Sometimes it’s good to look back and evaluate where one is in rela

Change implies vision, hope, forward thinking, improvement, betterment, advancement, movement. Change can be good, offering the very improvement that so many people yearn for. But it can sometimes be bad if it does not result in real improvement. In fact, it can sometimes produce the exact opposite than what is hoped for. Continuity, on the other hand, implies stability, security, predictability, solidity, dependability. It’s what young children unknowingly want in their fami

Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since that time. I’m older. My fingers are bent a little more from arthritis. I have more grandchildren. But many things also remain the same. I’m still living my dream of writing. I continue to learn from history. And I hope I’ve grown a little better as a person and as a writer. Sometimes it’s good to look back and evaluate where one is in rela