Author Archives: edpirie

I write this piece as the Senate Judiciary hearings are beginning for Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Amy Coney Barrett. The Trump campaign and Republican campaigns in general are starving for political energy. Their hope is to make this Supreme Court nomination the fuel to energize campaigns that have been running on empty. I am troubled […]

Yesterday, I called our minister to tell her that we wanted to be taken off the various church committees we serve on. Our church is a small rural church in Vermont, but we are not isolated from the divisions that are common in this country today. Church meetings, there are always church meetings, have been […]

Trump’s Failures With the Pandemic Kamala Harris was right. The Trump administration has failed the country with their response to the pandemic. Let’s look at what the country has gone through and what we know: First, in January, Trump received information that the virus was much more deadly than his administration was saying. We also […]

I love to write and one of my best intentions is to do more writing. I am fascinated by the writing process – I believe to be unique to each of us. I am intrigued by the critical thinking and editing that happens at the so-called point of a pencil, or at the key board […]

“Long ago and oh so far away, I fell in love with you before the second show…but you’re not really here, it’s just the radio.” Thank you Karen and Richard Carpenter for these lyrics from your song, “Superstar.” The piece of writing I am going to share has your song playing as my muse. I […]

What seems like a long time ago, I left the world of business accounting (no great loss) and started working in a public school. I hate to tell you, but this was just about thirty years ago. I kept a private tax practice going during most of the thirty years, finally stopping six years ago […]

Oh, this hits me in the face over and over again every day. I run into so many challenges just trying to take care of and maintain my simple home here in West Topsham. Technology is my bane. Oh, how I cross swords with technology and can barely gain a temporary truce. I want my […]

It’s been a while since I shared a “reading table” post. It was popular the last time I shared this list so I thought it might be worth sharing again. I just finished reading How The South Won the Civil War, by Heather Cox Richardson. Heather Cox Richardson is a very good historian, and a […]

This slogan has been a bit of a puzzle for me, “Make America Great Again.” The word “again” suggests a reference to some period in time, some time in our past. I was born in 1951 so that gives me about 70 years of reference. And, it would not be an exaggeration to say I […]

I have not wanted to write for a while – I guess I find the world depressing, and it takes the starch out of me just living in it. I have a bit of my thinking here to share – it’s what’s on my mind. I have a question. If so many Americans got filthy […]