John J. Waters

Author Archive

  • Nov 24, 2025
    Ken Khachigian, 81, of Orange County, California, was in the room with Reagan and Nixon. In the fall of 1967, Khachigian was a second-year law student at Columbia University when he...
  • Nov 10, 2025
    The blacktop road in this picturesque neighborhood of Colonial Williamsburg is lined with Southern Magnolias, red maples, and flowering dogwoods, their leaves turned deep shades of...
  • Sep 24, 2025
    From the ancient Redwoods in northern California, to the thunderous roar of Niagara Falls in upstate New York. From the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan, to the sandstone...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    David Gergen was the right kind of fellow. Born in 1942 in Durham, North Carolina, his father chaired the mathematics department at Duke University, and served as director of a...
  • Jul 21, 2025
    There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive,...
  • Jun 24, 2025
    On a sunny day in Alexandria’s historic Parker-Gray neighborhood, I knock on the door of a large brick house painted yellow with green trim. “You’re right on...
  • May 26, 2025
    Sherry Wyatt wanted a parade for Memorial Day. Growing up in rural Missouri, she remembers her aunts and uncles visiting from Kansas City for the holiday weekend. There was an uncle...