by Gary Simpson | Oct 31, 2021
On the eve of All Saints Day (a.k.a. ‘All Hallows Eve’ or ‘Halloween’) in 1517 an obscure German parish priest and professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg was busily rummaging through a carpenter’s tool box in search of a hammer. He had just finished...
by Gary Simpson | Oct 21, 2021
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet… ~ Romeo & Juliet – Act II Scene II What’s in a name? The phrase ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ implies that things are what they are, no...
by Gary Simpson | Oct 20, 2021
“May God, working through each of us, save the United States of America.” ~ A. King – 10/19/2021 Without theatrical bombast or oratorical ostentation, but with measured yet moving rhetoric, a King yesterday argued against monarchy and autocracy and for saving...
by Gary Simpson | Sep 10, 2021
Take a stroll down the sidewalk along the west side of Chatham County’s Justice Center in Pittsboro, NC and you’ll walk back into a somber place of American history marked by unimaginable horror and mind-numbing shock and awe. There on a small plot of ground 444 miles...
by Gary Simpson | Sep 6, 2021
It strikes me as an odd coincidence that this day, September 6, the observance of Labor Day, is also the very same day that in 1847 Henry David Thoreau packed up his meager belongings and bade his woodland cabin next to Walden Pond a fond adieu. The oddity of this...
by Gary Simpson | Aug 13, 2021
My eldest daughter and family +1 guest recently returned from an idyllic adventure to one of the more breathtakingly beautiful and unique places on the planet. Known as the “Land of Fire and Ice,” Iceland with its ample combination of both volcanoes and glaciers...