View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: I don’t know who wrote this or even which website carried it, but Rocky found it and shared it with me the other day:             “Wh...

View From Here: Economics

View From Here: Economics: Stock values rise. Stock values fall. Hundreds of millions of investors – some savvy, others not – make decisions that affect closing p...

View From Here: Limits to Freedom

View From Here: Limits to Freedom: When human beings inhabit adjacent space all Hell can break lose. Things happen. Thus rules were formed to maintain order. Some of these ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Freedom is for me,…and you,… to live and have. If I’m free to be me then no one can deny me that identity, the essence of what I feel is ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Freedom is for me,…and you,… to live and have. If I’m free to be me then no one can deny me that identity, the essence of what I feel is ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Freedom is for me,…and you,… to live and have. If I’m free to be me then no one can deny me that identity, the essence of what I feel is ...

View From Here: Strong or Weak?

View From Here: Strong or Weak?: I think I am a purposeful person. I think about things: ideas and circumstances; environments and dreams. I write about them. I also have...

View From Here: What Do You Want To Be?

View From Here: What Do You Want To Be?: I was struck by this quote from John Lennon the other day: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the k...

View From Here: Challenges

View From Here: Challenges: There are many challenges facing us each day, or is it really we who face the many challenges? Either way they pose a struggle.  A test i...

View From Here: Birthday Thoughts

View From Here: Birthday Thoughts: Today I am 70! I can’t say it feels weird. Nor can I say it is unremarkable. It just feels natural. How about that? Most of my life I...

I have alway said that Gay is the New Black. The New Black Official Trailer

View From Here: Opening Closed Doors

View From Here: Opening Closed Doors: From www.wisdomquotesandstories.com comes this: “In life we sometimes feel that all doors are now closed for us. If that happens in ...

DOMA Project

A Tale of Two Dads

View From Here: Follow Up to Yesterday

View From Here: Follow Up to Yesterday: My posting yesterday challenged us to know thyself and live accordingly. It advocated a continual personal exploration and self discovery...

HRC Celebrates Dads

View From Here: Knowing the Score

View From Here: Knowing the Score: Picture yourself at a dinner table in a crowded room; maybe it is a wedding banquet? Or maybe a retirement dinner? Or maybe it is just a sm...

His parents kick him out at 18 for being Gay.... There lost our gain. Jonathan Allen - Incredible Opera Singer! - Americas Got Talent 2013 Sea...

HBO Documentary Films: The Out List Trailer

Tony Awards 2013 Opening Number - Neil Patrick Harris and Mike Tyson

View From Here: Making Sense of Opportunities

View From Here: Making Sense of Opportunities: Projects at church, at the chamber of commerce, at the Park District, with the Arts Council – what work do we have to do right now to mov...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: I know there is much to do at this time of year – attend graduations, wedding showers, weddings, Mothers’ Day past, Fathers’ Day approach...

Bill and John: More Than Ever

View From Here: In This Together

View From Here: In This Together: Building community is everyone’s business. It starts in the home and moves to neighbors. Getting involved in neighborhood activities helps ...

View From Here: New Beginning

View From Here: New Beginning: After a dreary period of damp, humidity, dark clouds, swamps of rain, blustery winds and a long threat of severe storms and possible tornad...

View From Here: Repercussions

View From Here: Repercussions: Some of you may recall I fell heir to the role of estate administrator for a friend who died in December. The experience has been interes...

My Last Days: Meet Shane Burcaw

View From Here: Youth Message Follow-up

View From Here: Youth Message Follow-up: My May 13 th blog posting was a two-pronged message I wanted to deliver to the youth group I work with on Friday evenings. The group is co...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Rabbit, Rabbit Perhaps you don’t remember the very old wives’ tale requiring you to say ‘rabbit, rabbit’ as the first words out of your...