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Semiquincentennial
Happy 250th Birthday, America! We’re going to enjoy picnic food, patriotic music and some awesome fireworks. Why? Because America IS awesome. Let’s dive in…
United We Stand
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. ~Doc Hastings
Today is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
The Thirteen Colonies that hugged the eastern coast of North America considered themselves British until overreach and corruption in the home country made separation and founding a new country with a new form of self-rule.
After twenty-five decades, we’ve done so many amazing things that it beggars the imagination to try to list them all.
We united the continent with trains and made it thoroughly accessible to every man, woman and child with planes and automobiles.
We have cured deadly diseases and improved agriculture to support hundreds of millions of people living long, healthy lives.
We’ve invented technology to unite us from the simple telegraph to the worldwide web.
We’ve reached out in friendship to countries around the world and in scientific aspiration to the very face of the moon.
When we are united, there is very little we cannot do. So, let’s do that.
Let’s be united and step boldly into the future for the next twenty-five decades and see where that takes us.
God Bless America, my home sweet home.
Stars & Stripes
United States 250th Independence Day 2026 | The Greatest July 4th Celebration in Washington D.C.
What is Independence Day without an awesome patriotic parade?
Is there anything more American than showing respect to our veterans, enjoying the performances of our high school bands, waving at beauty queens and public notables?
We love a good parade because it makes us stand still and ponder the amazing abundance of talent, dedication and potential.
Floats are cool. Brightly dressed bands are inspiring. Fluttering flags, proudly borne by people who have earned the right to carry them stir our patriotism.
Parades are a reminder that we’re all in this together.
It was one of the great things about where I grew up.
East Broad Street in Souderton was the parade route.
It went right by my house. We could set up folding chairs on the sidewalk and watch the wonder march or roll right by.
You can’t trade that kind of childhood for anything.
I wish more of us could experience that formative sense of unity and stirring pride.
It’s something I treasure to this day.
America The Beautiful
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~Stephen Covey
There is so much that’s beautiful about America.
We’re blessed with some of the most extraordinary wild spaces.
From the ancient forests of my home state to the bleak beauty of places like the Grand Canyon or the glaciers of Alaska, we have miles of natural beauty.
We’re blessed with some of the most extraordinary minds in history.
From the genius of our Founding Fathers creating an enduring constitutional republic to a guy who has invented rockets that land themselves for reuse, America is a big beautiful brain for this planet.
We’re blessed with the ability to simply be who we are.
Maybe you’re aiming high to become President of the United States.
Maybe you’re happy being a guy who comes home to his wife and kids for a bit of domestic tranquility each evening and out for fun trips on the weekends.
Either way, it’s beautiful and perfectly okay to just be whoever you are.
As for me? I’m a writer. I will never not be a writer.
I’m currently at 461,429 words “in the can” and plenty more to go, and that’s only one of the genres I have lined up.
As for all Americans, the future is bright and limitless. I love it and I joyfully produce this story of mine.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for the end of the fifties…