Category: Essays/Poetry

All around me people are driving angry, shopping furiously and preparing to rage vote next year…

Apparently, the article I wrote a few weeks ago about a proposed private heliport/helipad project hit a nerve… and it wasn’t the funny bone…

Halloween’s influence is transforming Día de los Muertos into a hybrid cultural tradition…

We came of age in the turbulence of the 1960s, graduating high school in possibly the worst year of that decade…

Gardening has been shown to have many mental and physical health benefits by getting people outside and working in the soil…

We need to revive his legacy, because Bruno’s life and thought evince the virtues of which we are in such short supply…

I know very little about most of these 250 independent nations.  I was not expected to learn much about them, during my public school education…

So, let’s say you’re in the Gen X cohort. You were born between 1965 and 1980. Would ‘feh’ be familiar to you?

Other states that weren’t part of the Civil War, like Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, New Mexico, and South Dakota, which do celebrate Juneteenth…

Like top 10 songs on music charts, certain words become top 10 favorites. Like the rather popular word… ‘stakeholders,’ for example…

I was behind the wheel of our aging, but delightfully functional vehicle. There’s something about old stuff that my crusty, old inner self truly appreciates…

I’ve had this thing about metrics, which, in business, supposedly serve as an indication, or a measurement, of performance…