I was watching a program this morning that had me thinking all day. Author, David Brooks, wrote an article for “The Atlantic”. The title pretty much says it all, “How America Got Mean”. He talks about how our value systems have changed over, chiefly the last eight years, and that the normal for today is…
Contrary to my article title, Ohioans got it right yesterday and voted down an amendment to eliminate the simple majority. Many are seeing it as a win for abortion rights and the group leading the charge for pro-choice. Although I see the link and applaud the win, similar votes are coming forward in other states….
After a brief comment exchange with my book editor, Katie, over my article “Morning Thoughts”, I was left with a restless mind. This restlessness is not from her comments or mine, but more thinking about the basis for our beliefs and the ideologies we have created for ourselves. On a portal call, I off-hand made…
Since moving to Texas, we have been looking forward to the time that we would get to have grandkids here with us sans parents. Two months ago, we finally got our chance to do just that. Troy and Jess arranged to go to Mexico for a week to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. As a gift…
I’m unsettled! There isn’t really any other way to say it. I have so many ideas and no real course to get any of them done. I keep notes on my phone with these flashes of brilliance. My ideas are so detailed for the moment the inspiration hits but most simply fade away or become…
Every year, in May, we celebrate the joy of Motherhood. Some do this by recognizing all mothers everywhere. Some celebrate just their mom. But me, it is all generations of moms from my lineage and all those in my life currently. Most of all, I celebrate and thank my mom for the life she gave…
I’ve been on quest to find the perfect brew pub. Not perfection on some magical scale, no, my quest is fueled by several things making a place perfect. The reality is that there might be, nope, definitely will be many by my standards. Amber, porter, stout, and an occasional fruity wheat ale if in California….
Growing up, I guess until the age of 45, I never thought the tropics were something I would love. Man, it took me a long time to find something important that was missing. What was that missing element in my life, one might ask? Often, I think it is an intangible thing, but I’ll give…
Last November I was faced with the decision of taking social security at sixty-two or wait until some age between now and seventy or even at all, but I’m not opposed to social programs that I’ve paid for all my life. This decision is something I was pretty sure about it, as recently as two…
Jen and I often talked about travelling the world or just travelling the USA while we were working. I suppose it is a dream of a lot of people to travel and experience locations not always unlike your own in landscape, but culturally different. And, of course, there are those places that are so extremely…
