View From Here: What Have You Done for Me Lately?

View From Here: What Have You Done for Me Lately?: A boss from several years back told me that no matter what good I did for others there would come a day when those same people would ask ...

View From Here: Missing Headline

View From Here: Missing Headline: When a newspaper falters does it face its demise with headlines or silence? A good question. The internet has taken its toll on adver...

View From Here: Getting Along

View From Here: Getting Along: Get up in the morning. Greet the day. Muddle through personal duties, then to the kitchen to make coffee and crank up the computer. Kick ...

View From Here: Courage To Change the Things I Can

View From Here: Courage To Change the Things I Can: So the weather is bleak one day, what do we do? We live with it and move on. We cannot change it. We can only adapt to it, accept it. ...

View From Here: The State of Anti-Obama

View From Here: The State of Anti-Obama: So much is written about politics, even more spouted over the air waves, and much of it is claptrap. Pure bunk. Often hateful. Mostly ant...

View From Here: Settling

View From Here: Settling: Settling and waiting. Waiting and settling. What gives? Trying to sell the house. Market values have dropped. Still dropping. Now a s...

View From Here: Leg Bone's Connected to the Hip Bone...

View From Here: Leg Bone's Connected to the Hip Bone...: Upstate New York . Small town, suburb of Syracuse . Senior year in high school. History class. Teacher: Miss Gifford. Old, frail, bony, a...

View From Here: State of the World

View From Here: State of the World: Syria slays its own citizens. Gases them. Bombs them. Destroys their towns and communities. Libya did similar damage to its own people,...

View From Here: Temper of Our Times

View From Here: Temper of Our Times: Turn on the radio and listen to the news. Better yet listen to an open mike radio news discussion program. You will hear reports of accid...

View From Here: Earth and Art

View From Here: Earth and Art: This quote came from the internet a few days ago:             “The Earth without ‘art’ is just eh!” I have to thank Rocky for spo...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Unintended Consequences As we weather personal challenges we hurt, grow, prosper or wither. The important thing is to remain yourself...

View From Here: Doing the Right Thing

View From Here: Doing the Right Thing: Gloria Steinem gave us a great quote: “Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute”,  it helps other people to do the sa...

View From Here: Using Gifts

View From Here: Using Gifts: The guy who advanced modern day science by leaps and bounds was Albert Einstein. He unlocked physics for the benefit of decades of resear...

View From Here: Caring & Wanting

View From Here: Caring & Wanting: A test of our sensibility – what do we care about? Or what do we want? Are they different or the same? Are they even on the same planet? ...

View From Here: Theater Going

View From Here: Theater Going: Rocky and I attended a performance of The Book of Mormon Wednesday evening, September 4 th . Downtown Chicago for a 7:30 curtain call req...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Letting Go The burdens we carry throughout life are very real to us. Often we don’t know their true dimension until they are gone. ...

View From Here: Middle East Ethos

View From Here: Middle East Ethos: Well that’s an oxymoron! The term ‘Middle East Ethos’ conjures towering meanings that will most likely end in cancelling out competing th...

View From Here: Municipal Finance

View From Here: Municipal Finance: Revenues pour in and expenses rage out. Some revenues are received in advance of their need while others slowly arrive well past their depe...

View From Here: Justice and Values

View From Here: Justice and Values: Recently the pastor of my church commented that I write because I have to – not for money or prestige, but for the saying of ideas as the...

View From Here: Accountability

View From Here: Accountability: When you buy something at the store you expect to get something for your money, right? How about when you pay taxes? Do you expect effici...