The Myth We Grew Up Believing I remember walking down the dust swept boards of Front Street, Dodge City, Kansas as a young boy. The prairie wind had a way of whispering through the wooden slats of the old storefronts, carrying the scent of dry earth and sagebrush. My grandfather used to hold my small […]
The Front Porch and the Assembly Line If you take a stroll down Woodward Avenue in Detroit today, you will notice a city that is constantly reinventing itself. It is a beautiful thing to witness. But my mind always goes back to a different era. I remember the deep, resonant hum of the automobile plants […]
The Beautiful Mess of Progress Looking out over the quiet streets of my neighborhood, I often catch myself thinking about how much this country has grown over the decades. I see the old brick buildings downtown, standing shoulder to shoulder with new glass storefronts. I see young folks hurrying down the pavement, carrying their coffee […]
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The morning light hits the porch differently these days. It is softer. It wraps around the old wooden pillars like a familiar friend stopping by for a quiet visit. I sit here with my black coffee and watch the neighborhood slowly wake up. A young family is moving in next door. They are busy painting […]
The Quiet Promise of the Past I remember the steady hum of factories that used to echo across the river valley near my childhood home. The factory whistle would blow at five o clock every weekday. You could set your watch by it. Men would pour out of the large iron gates holding their metal […]
The Restless Rhythm of Our Homeland I have spent my days watching the dust rise and settle across the vast stretches of this country. If you sit still long enough on a wooden porch, listening to the evening crickets and the distant rumble of the highway, you begin to notice a rhythm. I have seen […]
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