“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way...

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a...

“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.” - John Hughes, The Breakfast Club My pathway in life has...

“Be happy while you’re living, For you’re a long time dead.” – Scottish Proverb I have been thinking of late of travel, and not the...

We made the mid-point of 2023. We rolled though it, at least in respect to our revolution around the sun on Wednesday at 10:57 AM EST. It...

"A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not...

“The Singer Tract was the one forest that looked and felt and smelled and sounded as it must have thousands of years before, there was a...

The first time I ever heard of Devil’s Lake, I was around 13 or 14 years old. I can recall my grandfather saying that when he passed, he...

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...