Once again, I beg your indulgence. As a father I do tend to live vicariously through my daughters. Their successes and adventures are my successes and adventures. This is wholly reasonable. It is, in my opinion, one of the many arguments for a Divine Creator. Unlike most animals, we do maintain familial connections with our offspring...
Part 1 Four years ago: I remember this flight. I remember the feelings of excitement, trepidation, and a sense of loss. The similarities back then were palpable. A few years earlier I had traveled with Sandy and Chaney to drop off Carolyn at the University of Oregon. Those same emotions manifested then as well. Four years ago we...
Ten years ago Sandy and I were on a drive to the Bay Area to pick up our daughter from a “summer camp”. Chaney (as had her sister, Carolyn, before her) had been identified by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth as… well… a “talented youth”. They offer a summer academic program for these...
This last week has been, well… a “week” for my family. Last Wednesday (as you were hopefully reading the blog), Sandy, Carolyn, Chaney and I, along with Sandy’s extended family, were at Rose Hills Cemetery laying Sandy’s father to rest. I want to talk about her father, my father-in-law, and the girls’ grandfather, in a bit because...
In 1995 I embarked on a journey that has been the most monumental adventure of my life. Sandy and I traveled to Las Vegas to get married. Well, that is not entirely true. Sandy, Carolyn, and I traveled to Las Vegas to become a family. Sandy had been married before, and she and her ex-husband had given birth...
Howdy ya’ll! The United States has always had a love for archetype characters. They serve as national models for emulation. While the histories surrounding these individuals and groups may be a bit sanitized or exaggerated, depending upon the needs of the audience, their ultimate purpose is to serve as guides both for our youth, as well...
Hello, my name is Sandy Lieberman and this week I decided to hijack my husband’s blog. Many of you have met me before; some of you have not. For those of you whom I have not had the pleasure of seeing face to face, let me briefly introduce myself… I am an American. I am also a...
West Point is a fort. Literally. It served as a military base along a strategic point near the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War. During that time General Benedict Arnold was in command of the garrison, which would lead to the ultimate betrayal of his comrades. Fortunately, his actions did not result in the loss...
Last week I subjected you all to a long missive about the decline of the American Republic. This week I have decided to be a little more optimistic and discuss something, frankly, far more critical to us all as individuals: character. From business, to politics, to law, to the basic interactions between us as people, there...
Rhode v Becerra Regardless of the rubes on the 9th Circuit, St. Benitez is my spirt animal. Most of you are well aware by now of his order in Rhode v Becerra. You are also probably aware that the State was not about to tolerate a judge telling it to obey the Constitution. It immediately filed an...
