Dover Class Notes Archive
Sukhumvit Home
Dear Friends, Bangkok, Thailand is where our 'kids' live. It's a mega city of 10 million people. To visitors it's an unfamiliar culture, unfamiliar language,...
Two Queens
Dear Friends, The "Queen of Country" and the "Queen of England." One born into poverty and lived life as a "coal miner's daughter." The other born into...
Grateful at the Dump
Dear Friends, The Williamson County Convenience Center... a sanitized name for the dump where I, along with a quarter million other county residents, take our...
Living Water
Dear Friends, Water, powerful in its simplicity... two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Too much of it and tons of earth are carried away, homes are...
Not Condemned
Dear Friends, Condemned. It's a hard word. A condemned anything... a school or home or park carries with it the idea that there once was a time of usefulness,...
Never Separated
Dear Friends, SAD, the acronym for Separation Anxiety Disorder, is not a condition most of us grew up with or knew about. But we likely experienced some form...
God Says ‘Hi’
Dear Friends, A twenty-eight hour roundtrip this past May with my teenage grandson introduced me to more hip-hop and rap and street wisdom than I knew...
Already Complete
Dear Friends, Perfection. A hard place to come by. Maybe a hole-in-one golf shot. Or a 1600 on the SAT test. Or the number 9 being a perfect square. Shots and...
Guardian of Souls
Dear Friends, The best guard dogs in the world according to Newsweek (July 2021)... the popular German Shepherds, Boxers, and Rottweilers along with several...
Seeing Completely
Dear Friends, How do we "see"? A very generic description would be that the iris controls how much light the pupil lets in. Followed by the cornea, the lens,...