Johnny Cash released a song in 1964, the Ballad of Ira Hayes – it was on the Bitter Tears Album, written to honor the history of Native...

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away, unless it is surrendered.” ― Michael J....

Themes have developed here over the weekly gratitude musings. Books are a theme for me. I was thinking about this recently and how in my...

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos Today is National Space Day in...

Last week, I was in DC for a conference and some meetings. The next morning, before heading home I decided to take a trip over to the...

Time. I seem to have less of it than ever! Yet, even as it passes, it has provided me so much. The challenges navigated have provided me...

“To be alive at all is to have scars.” ― John Steinbeck For singer songwriter Gilliam Welch, April 14th is known as “Ruination Day.” As...

“I didn't expect to do this for a living, be a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs to ... that...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so...

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of...

Three years ago, the state of PA and much of the rest of nation went on COVID lock down For many of us, it registers as one of those...

As I have written about in prior posts, we lost our beloved K9 companion Mr. Tweaks at the end of January. We are dog people. Dog energy...

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman My first draft of this...

This is a gratitude Friday post reflecting on my greatest physical feat. It occurred 33 years ago this month. I originally posted it in...

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves....