Author Archive: Cam
I am an observer of our interesting world , sharing my passions and my outrages, and thinking of Incredible Ben, his amazing blending of a social and civic life with superb common sense.
Hogg Heaven!
For decades, Houston children have laughed and delightedly mocked the Hogg family girls: Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg.
Who would name their children thus?
A D-Day Tribute: The Longest Day
Note: Reprinting this from last year, remembering D-Day. Every year we recognize in some increasingly trivial way the incredible victory of the Normandy beach landings in France on June 6, 1944. D-Day changed the course of WWII and certainly the course of our history. When I visited the memorial a few years ago, I was […]
LOOPING ?
Note: My friend, Mary, is a “Looper” and she is going to share her adventures with the rest of us. This is the first installment of many as she “loops” the Eastern United States in the Proud Mary accompanied by her husband, Jim, and Walter, their intrepid Cairn terrier. INTRO TO LOOPING, By Mary For […]
Asparagus: Only for a Patient Gardener
**(This Post is written by my friend, Mary. More info about her at the end.)** Asparagus is one of America’s favorite early spring vegetables and is very easy to grow . . . if you are patient. It takes 2 to 3 years to establish but the plant can be productive up to 20 years, […]
Edelweiss
The Sunday night Oscars paid tribute to The Sound of Music‘s 50th anniversary, and it was wonderful to see the very gracefully aged Julie Andrews and to hear her distinctive clipped English again. Traveling through Austria recently, everyone in our party was all Gaga about The Sound of Music. Oohs and ahs about Maria and […]
Play It Again, Please
Two Great Oldies These two movies have been replaying again on several of the channels lately, and they are two favorites. I’ll pass them on to you. Enemy of the State (1998) One of the amazing things about this movie is that it was made about 16 years ago…it’s all about government surveillance gone amuck, […]
Repurposed Vegetables*
I sometimes watch Ina Garten, television’s Barefoot Contessa, and she has me sold on vegetables. She’s an interesting person. She worked for Presidents Ford and Carter writing nuclear energy policy, and she is married to Jeffery Garten, a professor at Yale and author of several books. A lot of her cooking show episodes are set […]
Frankly, my dear, I DO give a damn!
I just detest this age of “political correctness” our world is stuck in. So many daily examples in our newspapers,on talk shows, FB, Twitter, ETC. Everyone has to be so careful with wording, so thorough in giving acknowledgements to all who might possibly be offended, that plain straight talk can be dangerous to one’s reputation […]
Hey Bird Brain!
Ben was focused on founding the country, but he almost missed the emerging issue of the new century: slavery. However he took an interest in a neighbor’s young slave boy, and became a leading Abolitionist, lending his considerable influence to the movement to free the slaves. What do you think is the most important issue […]
The First Thousand Miles of The Loop
Note: My friend, Mary, is a “Looper” and she is going to share her adventures with the rest of us. This is the second installment of many as she “loops” the Eastern United States in the Proud Mary accompanied by her husband, Jim, and Walter, their intrepid Cairn terrier. She has taken some wonderful photos […]