How Great Aunt Maggie Pye Began Writing Me, her Great-Nephew
 

The Letters from Maggie Pye

Playing With Our Civil Liberties  March 3, 2004

Bedtime Partnerships  March 8, 2004

Hubble Trouble  March 12, 2004

Mid-East Mexican Standoff  March 18, 2004

Tax Refund Kickbacks  March 22, 2004

No Child Left Behind - No Problem  March 26, 2004

Fundamental Blundering - April 2, 2004

Out Source, In Cash  April 6, 2004

White House Gossip  April 10, 2004

Window Dressings for War  April 24, 2004

Reputation Updates  May 21, 2004

Film Fracas - 911  May 23, 2004

Good Hearted Wrongs  May 24, 2004

Divisions As Paramount  May 29, 2004

Face-Saving Initiative  June 13, 2004

America Sanctions a State Based Faith  July 1, 2004

The Perils of Moral Superiority  July 2, 2004

Sin for Your Country  July 3, 2004

With Liberty and Justice for All - Perhaps  July 4, 2004

What! No Garden of Eden?  July 7, 2004

Why Alan Keys Came to Chi-Town  August 13, 2004

No One in Illinois Good Enough for Us Republicans  August 14, 2004

A "Dubious" Early Christmas Present for Illinois  August 15, 2004

A Faith-Based Vote for Bush  August 18, 2004

Divine Reich? May 2, 2005

The painting is by my Aunt Ann Hurley, now in her upper 80's, of her and my father's home in Easton, NY built by their Swedish parents who came over by boat around 1900. Mom's Quaker ancestors came over by boat from England in the early 1700's, becoming whalers in Rhode Island and finally settling a town along the Hudson River named after her family, Clark's Mills.