A Story From the Mountain Every little boy dreams of flying. Growing up, I remember there was this one kid I knew who thought about flying, dreamed about flying, every day and night. One time, way back when, he said to me that almost every night (after he fell asleep…

From the Mountain Sunday morning and it’s 7 am. Romeo, Gidget, and I already have had our morning walk. As usual with winter in the mountains, the morning dew on the grass is frozen. The Yorkies don’t like it, I can tell. Smiling, I think to myself … “just wait…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost “Life is not a given, it’s a gift.” Throughout life, we reach a fork in the road, a point where a decision must be made. …

Ever get a traffic ticket and it cost you a week's pay? Driving in Paradise Valley, AZ the other day, I was tooling along at the speed limit. Why? Because I know from experience that every road in that town is a speed trap. …

Facts v. Emotions in the Roe/Wade Debate — The group in this photo above, asks them one simple question: Are they all on adoption listed and prepared to adopt and care for all these children? Or maybe this: why do they still ignore the over 600,000 children currently in the child welfare system? The finding the Supreme Court…

What Do You Know About Addiction? — Many of us are addicts. In college, I became addicted to methamphetamine. I left college in part to get away from it, move somewhere where I knew I couldn’t find it. I told myself at the time I needed meth to study and that is what I initially used it…

Five Reasons Why BLM is a Failed Movement — Mistake #1- Black Lives Matter is not The Black Panthers I am old enough to have witnessed the Black Panther Movement. I had met some of the people involved in that movement. Following is my opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement only. They consist of thousands of good, well-meaning people, scammed by a few seeking to enrich themselves. The…

Collaborating With Other Writers Should Be Easier — Just a short rant/suggestion here. It has to be said. This platform should allow writers to converse with each other, should they choose. But it doesn’t. When someone claps, highlights some words, anything other than commenting, why is it so hard (impossible) to communicate with that person? When a profile…