True Facts

[I just got home from work, almost two hours late, and I knew that I was going to have to write tonight – I needed to write something – and as a song came on the radio when I pulled into the drive, I knew what I was going to write about. However, after coming…

Farm cats are domestic cats which live on a farm or in an otherwise rural environment. Farm cats are different from pet cats in so far as farm cats are not part of the family. Often, they do not even have names. They are not allowed inside the home. Instead they live inside a barn…

When I noted my upcoming vacation in Phoenix, only one local Facebooker responded. Irma. Irma was one year behind me in the Graphic Design program at Arizona State. It is common in professional programs, and certainly at the ASU GD program, for upper classmen to develop a mentor/protege relations...

Each one of us contributes something to the history of all that is with every minute of our day. There are those events, however, which are Historical. Tonight was the 35th anniversary concert of the band Kansas, performed at White Concert Hall accompanied by the Washburn University Orchestra. It...

The Fourth of July is probably my favorite holiday. My gifts and intelligence are geared toward the martial (and marshal). I was raised to be patriotic, and as a Christian and an American, I hold the sacrifices of the body Military as personal and individual, just as I hold my own sacrifices of s...

Saturday I rode my "birthday bike ride" on the Indian Creek trail system in the suburbs of Major Metro Center. The ride kicked my butt!! I didn't camp this year because there was a forecast for rain, and I don't have the time in my schedule to deal with a wet tent. Nor the space…

Suddenly it crystalized and shattered. Glass fell slowly, dramatically like dry snow blown from pine boughs deep in the forest where you can hear the tinkling of chimes. The folks and I were on our way south to Industrial City for the funeral of a family member of friends. It was Christmas Eve. T...