Category: The Presidents

Today is set aside to celebrate President’s Day and upon learning the news of President Jimmy Carter, now age 98, being moved into Hospice Care lead me to delve into some of President Carter’s accomplishments in his long tenure on this earth. I wanted to learn the less published aspects of the great man and

We are in a new world.  The order of everything has turned upside down. There is strife everywhere – it is all around us. Growing racial tensions, global health concerns, the unjust war raging in Ukraine, and closer to home – family arrangements forced into coping with a new structure – all these changes have

Being that this day marks the day when we celebrate the lives of all our past Presidents, I thought it fun to publish a couple of essays on the lives of the Presidents whose faces are chiseled on Mount Rushmore. DON’T CALL ME ABE – THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR Outside of the well-publicized and written about

Being that this day marks the day when we celebrate the lives of all our past Presidents, I thought it fun to publish a couple of essays on the lives of the Presidents whose faces are chiseled on Mount Rushmore. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS A ROUGH RIDER Teddy, as he was affectionately called, was a Rough

Thomas Jefferson Was A Renaissance Guy In addition to serving two terms as President of the United States from 1801 to 1809, Thomas Jefferson was a man of many faces. Did you know that he was an archaeologist as well as an architect? Known as being a fun, humorous and endlessly curious man, Jefferson accomplished

Being that this day marks the day when we celebrate the lives of all our past Presidents, I thought it fun to publish a couple of essays on the lives of the Presidents whose faces are chiseled on Mount Rushmore. POTUS #1 George Washington, our nation’s first President, had no formal education and yet rose