2022 Columns

The New Year is upon us. 2023.  It seems like only yesterday that we were up at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999, wringing our hands at what catastrophes might await us at the beginning of Y2K – the year 2000. It was thought there was a problem in the coding of computerized systems that would create chaos in computers and computer networks around the world as the year 2000 made … [Read more...] about December 25, 2022: Junior E. Lee Takes A Look at Y2KXXIII

Two years this week, I told you a final goodbye. In some respects, you were not the woman I knew and loved that left me. The highly organized mind contained within an extremely kind and giving person had been drained of its memory and there were debilitating health issues those last couple of years. But they cannot erase the good memories. I often ask myself what I would say … [Read more...] about December 18, 2022: A Tribute to the Beloved Woman Who Shared My Name

One of the givens in occupying this space weekly is that when I talk about politics, which I do on occasion, anything I opine will be construed negatively by one side or the other. It is difficult for some to comprehend that I might be in the middle of the political road, unlike many (or most) columnists and commentators who see the world only through a liberal or conservative … [Read more...] about December 11, 2022: Herschel Walker and Advisors Fumbled Senate Campaign

As a matter of policy, I don’t do book reviews and I get a lot of requests. If you do one, you are pretty much committed to doing them all. If fairness, where do you draw the line? However, today I am going to make an exception because the author is exceptional as is the story she tells. Her name is Samantha Perez but her friends call her Sam. So do I. A native of Lexington, … [Read more...] about December 4, 2022: Making An Exception For An Exceptional Story

This is kind of a bummer way to start your day but it is worth reflection: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Who said that? Karl Marx? Ayatollah Khomeini? Vladimir Putin? Wrong, wrong and wrong. It was John Adams, the second president of the United States. He also … [Read more...] about November 27, 2022: Can Our Democracy Outlast Us?