Category: Essays

Love is the only force strong enough to be the unifying energy that ties our broken country back together. Hate can’t do it. Hate and fear have polarized us. We need to choose…

The nightmare I was having was like a storyboard… like the images people in the movie business draw up, so they can visualize their motion pictures…

Things had been going downhill, for many of the working families in Pagosa Springs, well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene…

If a person struggles with mathematics, does that mean they have trouble using the left side of their brain? Once again, a logical conclusion…

In fact, modern science has made very little headway in explaining why humans (and other life forms) experience nocturnal dreams…

The day after Thanksgiving, I awoke from a dream that — unlike most of my dreams, my thousands of dreams — left a mark on my waking consciousness…

“Together, these results suggest that people engage in motivated interpretation of their dreams and that these interpretations impact their everyday lives…”

I’m baffled a lot, because high-tech devices are so smart, and I can’t always keep up with what they’re doing…

“Someone who has just escaped from a fire may dream about the actual fire a few times, then may dream about being swept away by a tidal wave….”

I have my own ideas about what the word ‘consciousness’ means. And I think I know what an ‘illusion’ is….

Freemasonry is the world’s oldest and largest Fraternity. It is international and its estimated membership of 6+ million are found in all but a handful of countries…

“There are no strangers” at Rodney Scott’s restaurants — he has more than one location, now. “Everyone has a seat at our table…”

Japanese beetles were our most common target. When I was younger, my granddad would drive me out to the farm that was to be sprayed. After I turned sixteen and got my license, I drove Dad’s truck…