by Doug Thompson | Dec 4, 2020 | Musings
Sixteen years ago this month, wife Amy and I closed on the purchase of our current home in Floyd County, the third home we’ve lived in during nearly 41 years of marriage and, we hope, our final domicile. It is a New England “saltbox” style...
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...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 30, 2017 | Musings
For the first six years of our time in Washington, DC, I worked for the Republican party in one form or another. My first job in the nation’s Capital was press secretary to longtime GOP Congressman Paul Findley of Illinois . It was a change from being a...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 5, 2017 | Musings
Amy and me lived in Arlington, Virginia — part of the National Capital Region of Washington, DC — for 23 years in a move that we thought would last, at the most, two or three 12-month terms. My plan, at the time, was to work for Congress for a couple of...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 28, 2016 | Musings
It’s always interesting — and often funny — to consider how Floyd Countians cope with snowstorms compared to the absolute panic that usually seizes Washington, DC, whenever a single flake of snow falls on the National Capital Region. We saw a lot of...
