Autobiography, Friendship2 Comments

Real Friendship

Tim Harlow

The other day I lost a good friend from my high school years, Cindy Blackburn Whitson. She had been sick for some time battling ovarian cancer, and finally lost the war. We had been pretty good friends during high school, but I had lost touch with her after graduation. We didn’t reconnect until about 2 1/2 years ago when I found her on Facebook. Of course over those many years our lives took very different paths and we each have our own respective families. After the reconnection, it was as if almost no time had passed since we had last … Continue reading Real Friendship

Autobiography1 Comment

Why Write?

Tim Harlow

It might be easier to ask the question, “Why not write?” But at the bottom of everything, I write simply because I have things to say. Is anything I have to say really important enough to matter to anyone else? The only way to really answer that question is to write and see what comes. I have always had a hard time keeping mouth shut. When I was a kid, I got into fights due to my propensity to comment on everything. You would think that I would have learned. Well, I still have the same problem; I still comment … Continue reading Why Write?

Immigration

The Light that is America

Tim Harlow

We’ve had a rough weekend with terrorist attacks, and some people have died. This barbarianism hurts all of us; it hurts society. There’s a great debate raging about how we deal with this issue and its ties to our immigration policies. How we act will define who we are as a nation for many years to come. Many years ago there was a political candidate running for election in a major world power. This person’s platform mainly consisted of capitalizing on those who were downtrodden from a great global depression. The candidate kept telling the people that he would make … Continue reading The Light that is America