Del Hayes Press

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide…

Sometimes, in the least likely of places and at the least likely time, life causes me to wonder. One such time was yesterday, and the place was the scrap metal yard in a small town in central Maine, about ten miles from where I now live with daughter, Deb, and grandkids. And as I did, […]

We can be “ruthless,” but can we be “ruth?”

Trust?…or Fear? The choice is daunting, but one we have to face alone

Americans have always wanted to be “on the road again.” But have we lost our national can-do spirit, the spirit that once built those roads?

In an American Spectator review of the book, Curiosity and Its Twelve Rules for Life, by author F.H. Buckley, the reviewer, Shmuel Klatzkin, relates a story told by “novelist and prankster,” Ken Kesey. In that story, Kesey recounted that his dad upbraided him once, declaring to him, “Your problem is that you keep trying to […]

Our traditional English language is a marvelous gift handed down to us over the centuries…but, are we “losing her?”

“Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true”…and my dream came true, the day I flew Betty Jane

Yogi Berra once famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” And on this day, April 17, 1956, I came to a fork in the road…

What’s in a symbol. How does a proud bald eagle stir such deep feelings for our “land of the free, the home of the brave?”