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My parents have passed away. On the date of their birth I spend time thinking of them. I usually do it in private. I decided this year to put some of my thoughts into this blog about my mother Alice Rogers Connolly the daughter of two Irish immigrants. My first memories of her is when…

My wife Maria, maiden name Wozniuk, recently wrote a letter to the Ukrainian Weekly which it just published. I will set it out here but first a little bit about her background. She left Ukraine in the middle of winter in  a horse draw cart with her family  because her father was a target of…

President Joseph Biden is expected to make this speech later today; “My Fellow Americans, I have been in office for about  two months and a week. Over this  weekend a group of 19 Republican United States senators went to visit the southern border to see the condition of it and the manner in which  people…

The Bill  of Rights. I suppose you all have heard of them. They are attached to the Constitution and set forth the rights of the folk in Americas against the government,  It  consists of ten amendments to the Constitution.  Sometimes it is good to remember them even though they say nothing about the right not…

A mentally unstable person with a machine gun, or its equivalent an AR-15, kills ten others. Horror or horror. Folk going about their daily lives visiting a supermarket are gunned down. We weep, we cry, we pray, and we forget in a day or two. Then a mentally unstable person with a machine gun, or its…

Today is the first Sunday of spring. Somewhere spring is in the air and that joyous feeling of the warm southerly breeze caressing one restores one’s spirit. Alas, on Cape Cod the calendar lies – we have to wait until Memorial Day for spring to come with its smiling face and before we can get…