Infrastructure is in the news. It’s about what it is and how to fund it. It appears there is some agreement on “hard” infrastructure spending.  There are...

An Ode is poetic praise. Owed is a debt recognized. Freedom is due both. My favorite Ode is Ode to Joy. We celebrate July fourth as independence...

In my previous blog, I wrote about the wonder of words. I will expand that to language. William C. Moyers, long-time friend and author, is vice president...

 Factoid: The old children’s proverb “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” was used as early as 1862 to refrain people...

In the old West, when a community was plagued by bad guys, the townsfolk got together and formed a posse and chased the bad guys out of...

I completed my 89th year on Mother Earth (32,506 days of life) and decided to share some personal past. I recently read an Interesting Fact: If you...

I observed and I write.  Over the last year the nation has gone through an incredible test of wills. Hindsight can’t be 2020. Alarmingly instructive but so...

I woke this morning with one day left in 2020. It was a year that surely altered and illuminated our times. In a recent blog, I referenced...

From a family recovering journey, I have gone through the stage of typical denial, anger, and confusion.  When I finally surfaced my head above the dark water,...