David Stringer

6 days ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

I stepped to the plate in the last inning of a recreational league softball game, determined to do something meaningful. This was a few decades ago, and though I’ve never been the most athletic person in the world, I prided myself on using whatever limited abilities God provided me with to the best of my ability.

1 week ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

Youth is wasted on the young, so they say. We’re unable (or unwilling) to learn many of life’s hard lessons until we have a few years under our belts. It took me many years into adulthood before I began to understand the wisdom my father tried to impart. He’s been gone over a decade now and I feel I’m still learning what he tried to teach me. What I’ve come to appreciate more than anything are the things I couldn’t have learned without him. He was, after all, a child of a different era.

2 weeks ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

I wasn’t certain what to expect. But it was a confusing combination of solemnity, peace and reverence I came away with after getting to visit the American cemetery at Normandy last month. Visiting the site has been a bucket list desire for as long as I can remember. Getting to be there on Memorial Day was especially thought-provoking.

1 month ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

Many people struggle their entire lives to be “somebody.” It’s a blessing and a curse, I suppose. There are more than a few famous people who find themselves the target of paparazzi or insistent fans who are emboldened to interrupt any gathering. Years ago, as the editor of the local newspaper, I was proud to have been invited to a local soiree, convinced I’d been accepted by the community as it was a pretty tightly-controlled event. I’d arrived, I thought, and been accepted.

1 month ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

It’s a question of ethicsYour politics shouldn’t control your ethics. Extending that philosophy, your politics shouldn’t prompt you to give a pass to someone who has the correct letter — D or R — after their name if you don’t offer the same to the opposition, simply because of how it may benefit your cause. Transactional ethics are no ethics at all. kAm~7 4@FCD6 E92E[ :? 2?5 @7 :ED6=7[ C2:D6D E96 BF6DE:@?i s@ J@F C62==J 92G6 6E9:42= DE2?52C5D :7 E96J’C6 4@?E:?86?E @? 2 A2CE:D2?