In an ongoing effort to keep my blog new and interesting, I will be on assignment in Rome, Southern Italy, and Portugal for a few weeks....

(Brooks Robinson, by Norman Rockwell) What is it about baseball that has inspired poetry, song, art, storytelling, and writing like no...

(Capitol Reflections, photo by John Constance) Congress is broken. Politics is a vicious blood sport. There is no such thing as a...

My wife has been part of a group of women and men at our church who have been loyal volunteers for Meals on Wheels of Wake County for...

Funny word “positive.” It’s what we grow up being told to be. Our attitude should be positive, our outlook, positive. Our convictions,...

In the early 1990’s a friend asked me to join him for a round of golf at an iconic Baltimore course where he was a member. Sparrows Point...

I must give full credit to a friend who after seeing my travelogue videos suggested maybe a walk down memory lane: Catonsville MD in the...

One of the blessings of my life is to have family in Wales. Thanks to my father's sister, Aunt Jean, correspondence was faithfully...

When we begin an evening at a fine French restaurant, we don’t expect it to end standing in a hot shower with all our clothes on. Late...

An ocean of old faces. A National Septuagenarian Portrait Gallery. I didn’t recognize anyone. As I would draw closer, there were familiar...

When we hear those three words, most people today would think they refer to the home improvement TV show premiered in 1979 and now a...

Allen David Carli, Jr. was a legend. A fraternity brother and friend of 55 years, Dave (Carli, Carlos, Los, etc, etc) was a successful...

When I was Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs (GRPA or GrrrrPaw...lovely acronym, eh?) at the Legal Services Corporation...

Local Preacher and Student With the Welsh Revival chapel attendance dramatically increased. There were many opportunities for local...

Minutes of the Baltimore Preacher’s Meeting re the Death of Bert Constance “The news of the unexpected death of the Reverend Bert...

There were two reasons that John Carlin, Archivist of the United States, and I were travelling to the FDR Library and Museum in Hyde...

Senator Charles (Mac) Mathias (R-MD) Governor Theodore R. McKeldin (R-MD) Ok folks, the topics today are political patronage and...

During my tenure at the National Archives, I got into the habit of attending St. John’s Lafayette Square each year on Good Friday. As an...

November 1958, a rainy day in Catonsville, Md. My dad was at home having just returned from the hospital with the first of what would be...

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that truly be said...