Opinion

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    Speaking Freely

    We’re finally home. It seems like we’ve been gone for several months. I think we put something like seventy-six hundred miles on the odometer. Nearly a years’ worth of driving per our insurances yearly estimates.  My butt feels every mile of it but the other problem with travel is eating very rich foods. Not necessarily…

  • Surviving 2025, Will We?

    I don’t know about you, but 2025 has to be the craziest year ever and we are only a quarter of the way through it. Donald Trump, with a little help from his co-president Elon Musk, have single-handedly begun a destruction campaign on American ways of life. Unemployment has risen to over 4%, the stock…

  • Dreams and Reality

    I’ve managed to make a career out of dealing with reality and fact-based solutions. Admittedly, I worked in a world of technology, and with that comes a very analytical approach to everything, some would say even a handcuffed to procedures mentality. It has also bled over into my personal life which drives my wife nuts….

  • A’int America Great?

    With the chaos going on in D.C. and the wholesale clearing house approach to firing federal employees to ensure only loyalists remain as employees, it is a travesty. Career employees don’t work with political aspirational thoughts. In fact, there is the Hatch Act that is to maintain a federal workforce that is free from partisan…

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    Federal Chaos

    We’re in the midst of the first hundred days Trump Ver.2.0. Most of us, correction, probably everyone is flabbergasted at the seemingly illegal use of Executive Orders and yet so many, in an effort to justify their vote, are making excuses for the chaotic effort by this administration. The do-nothing Congress has pushed all of…

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    Some Thoughts

    I, like so many others, are stumped by the election of Trump. I’ve had a steady diet of talk shows utterly repulsed by his actions, speech, and overall lack of class. You would think this country would have avoided him like the plague and in some respects they did. If you look at the overall…