I am blessed with having some wonderful nerds in my life.  They love numbers and working with numbers to help them understand and explain the world. [It is the second week of July 2020.  Last week (see “Black Power & Little Micah“) I started writing about race and current events

“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” – Zhou Enlai On Monday of this week, millions of Americans enjoyed a day off of work and out of school to honor their U.S. presidents – past and present.  If the quote above from

Speak to your children, to the young, and even to the old of beauty and it will awaken their souls and open their eyes to the truth of things. It is the blind, deadened soul that sees all things as subjective, relative, and interchangeable with each other.  When beauty and

I’m pretty sure when most people think of the Ten Commandments – if they think of them at all – they don’t think, “Wow! What a vision!” I suspect that most people’s thoughts run more along the lines of dismissive irritation – with rules, with authority, etc. – and a

[Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

I heard a wonderful story a while back from the competitive shooting world. Like other sports, there are few people who can bring together all of the qualities necessary to compete at the highest levels of the competitive shooting world.  And in this case I’m specifically meaning pistol shooting.  You