CBW WEEKLY UPDATES

I’m taking a break this week to catch up on revising the final draft of my next book. Writing a book is no small effort and it requires patience and focus to get it right. This week I received very positive peer Read more…

It’s Thanksgiving Day. This is a time when many of us are focused on family and food. But we should not let the day pass without contemplating our many blessings, including our family and friends. In our case we have five wonderful grandchildren Read more…

The latest rendition of the culture wars now includes a term that characterizes what it means to be “woke.” What does that mean? Well, if you accept popular expressions of being “woke,” you might agree with the Urban Dictionary’s version. Specifically, being woke means Read more…

Today is Veterans Day. It’s not Memorial Day, when we remember our fallen, as a nation should for all time. When it fails to, it ceases to be a nation. Today instead we honor veterans, the ones who came home. Read more…

Last week I was at our river place—pronounced “riv’ah if you hail from Virginia’s Northern Neck—when a nor’easter struck with a vengeance. I stood by watching helplessly as the waves and wind whipsawed our pier, tearing away most of its decking, Read more…

The nation’s eyes are on Virginia. It shouldn’t surprise anyone since only Virginia and New Jersey have gubernatorial elections this year.  Moreover, the nation has been bitterly divided over political and culture war issues that have dominated in recent years, particularly Read more…

Sometimes I see something in the news that gives me hope that, as a nation, we may not have quite fallen off the enlightened ledge, not yet anyway. I am sure that many of you are aware of the “progressive” far-left Read more…

I worry about the state of our fighting forces today. In particular, I’m troubled about my Army, the service I love to this day. I can’t recall a time in my childhood where I didn’t aspire to be a soldier. When I entered Read more…

I got caught in a rain storm the other day and by the time I was home, I was drenched. Fortunately, it was a somewhat humid day and the rain was a bit refreshing, even as I waded through puddles of Read more…

I am busy! This week I am pressing to finish the edits of the final draft of my next book, one that will focus on U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping in the Middle East in the early 1980’s. I was assigned Read more…