by Dale Jenkins | Oct 2, 2026 | Featured Updates, Updates
Shakespeare often entrusted his clearest truths to fools. In King Lear, the Fool offers an aging king a warning as concise as it is enduring: “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.” —William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 5 Age may command...
by Dale Jenkins | Sep 10, 2026 | Featured Updates, Updates
Twenty-five years ago, the attacks of September 11, 2001, changed our nation forever. Today, we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost, honor the courage of the first responders, and recognize the countless Americans who answered the call to serve in the years that...
by Dale Jenkins | Aug 11, 2026 | Book Reviews
Robert C. Stern, Super Destroyers, Seaforth Publishing (Imprint of Pen & Sword Books., Ltd.), 255 pages, 2024. Mr. Stern, a resident of Alameda, CA, has written nine books , mostly of a maritime theme. A previous book, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 3, 2026 | Featured Updates, Updates
This Independence Day carries a little extra weight. 250 years is a milestone worth marking. But in many ways, America is still young. Our next chapter won’t be written by historians. It will be written by all of us. Let’s make it one to be proud...
by Dale Jenkins | Apr 17, 2026 | Published Articles
The Roman Empire developed as a civilization over seven centuries from the city of Rome to an empire encompassing the territories on the entire shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea, north to the British Isles and eastward to the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates. They...
