Larry Little

1 week ago | kitsapsun.com | Larry Little

In my April 5 column I offered some gratuitous advice to a frog. Kermit was scheduled to speak to the graduates of the University of Maryland and did so on May 22... appropriately ignoring most of my outdated advice and lame jokes. However, he offered some of his own. He had three suggestions, that in and of themselves contain some complexity worthy of pondering: “Finding your people, taking the leap, and making connections.”Let’s examine Kermit’s three tips.

3 weeks ago | kitsapsun.com | Larry Little

It has often seemed to me that insightful and credible personal stories from the past are rare. If we are lucky, we may know some of the names of our long-deceased ancestors. We almost never know what they really were like. If they won the Medal of Honor, were they a kind father and loving husband? If they died in jail, was the sentence just and the death really from natural causes, and would he likely give you a coat, or steal it from you?

1 month ago | kitsapsun.com | Larry Little

Larry LittleColumnistAt college in the mid-1960s I minored in history. Ever since, as time permits, my reading often includes biographies and occasionally autobiographies. As I am a slow reader sometimes a lengthy book will take me months to finish. Often, I never finish them; a pattern I suspect is far from uncommon. Unlike less scatterbrained readers, I generally focus on a particular historical period and then move to another.

1 month ago | kitsapsun.com | Larry Little

We certainly have many ongoing challenges. Today I chose to address one huge challenge of a foreign policy nature; and two less obvious and seemingly smaller ones, both in the domestic arena. On the surface, Iran, and their obtaining nuclear weapons, seems to be the leading immediate foreign concern; albeit with less media attention than our economy and bellwethers of it — say, the price of eggs. I will leave tariffs and trade balances for others to discuss.

Feb 24, 2025 | kitsapsun.com | Larry Little

A couple of times over the past month our third-grade granddaughter has asked me to listen to her reading a chapter or two from the 2016 comic book/ graphic novel “Dog Man,” by Dav Pilkey. In the recent past I had listened — from a distance, picking up one word out of three — to her reading out loud to herself from the book, complete with her bursts of laughter, and intermissions for replenishments of macaroni and cheese or cookies. As a veteran grandfather, I obviously accepted her invitation.