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The Bhagavad Gita, a walk in the rain

Back in the ’70s, I found myself in a classroom at the Hagerstown Junior College; I was majoring in criminal justice, and I...

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Suicide Bridge – an end or a beginning?

I had a recent notion, to travel to a place I stopped at once many, many years ago near the water in Hurlock,...

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What’s the world coming to?

​Have you noticed all the air in the potato chip bag lately? ​Or does the toothpaste in a toothpaste tube seem a little light? ​Did your...

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‘Ain’t you come a long way’

Kris Kristofferson, sang a ballad back in 1986 called ‘This Old Road.”  It was about growing old and having another birthday like I...

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Maryland prisons under distress

I worked 34 years in Maryland prisons and learned some very good lessons.  I walked the prison corridors often. Both the incarcerated and...

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Abingdon, Virginia, and a few old stories

​Do you like history and adventure?  ​So do I! ​Who would get up at 2 in the morning and put the ‘pedal to...

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Do you ever practice ‘civility?’

​Mark Twain once said, “There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than...

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A ‘semiquincentennial’ has arrived!

Has the Dargan Boy gone bonkers? Is he lost for words? Or is he having a spelling ‘Bee’ issue? None of the above!...

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The boy and a strawberry pie

Once upon a time, there lived an old man in the south part of the county.  He was an industrious sort most of...

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Rome, Gladiators and the White House

You know, Bubba (my fictional friend) and I were having some fresh homemade strawberry pie the other day, with a tad of whipped...

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