by Doug Thompson | Jul 9, 2021 | Afflicting
I have been a fortunate man to have enjoyed the company of beautiful, accomplished women during most of my adult life. My wife of 40+ years is a retired actress who worked with Al Pacino on a tribute to Lee Strasberg in New York, directed plays in various parts of the...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 5, 2018 | Afflicting
After graduation from Floyd County High School in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, I left my rural area to pursue a career as a newspaperman. Four decades later, I returned to the county after 17 years with daily newspapers, 12 years as a political operative and...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 12, 2018 | Afflicting
I’ve spent the past 14 years shooting high school sports for media and it is interesting how some of the sports have evolved. One is volleyball, which has become a more popular sport among the young ladies on the high school teams and the...
by Doug Thompson | Jul 25, 2018 | Afflicting
Attended visitation for an old friend, who died at age 70 in a nursing home of “an age-related illness,” his daughter in law said. Age-related: A term one lives with in later years. At 70, I hear my doctor — who is in his 80s — often tell me...
by Doug Thompson | Jul 24, 2018 | Afflicting
This web site has taken many forms over the years. It was a business site that defined my free- lance activities in Washington, DC, over a 23 year period. It was a blog for a while and even a news site but I have a hyperlocal site (Blue Ridge Muse) and a national...
by Doug Thompson | May 26, 2018 | Afflicting
The time, the Walrus said, to speak of many things. I write more than I speak and most of what I have written about for more than five decades concerns politics, most often about the failure of the political system that drives and — I believe — is...
