View From Here: Happy Halloween!

View From Here: Happy Halloween!: Boo!  Much to think and cringe about today. To get us started is Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion fame: “Republicans: the n...

View From Here: Housing Complexity

View From Here: Housing Complexity: 'You ought to write a book!' We have all heard that statement or read it hundreds of times. I understand why people say it. Prett...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Aristotle provides our thought to ponder today: “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing....

View From Here: Making Sense of the GOP

View From Here: Making Sense of the GOP: I know this is  partisan blog today. Some of you need to read these words to maintain your faith in the American system. Others need to r...

View From Here: A Potpourri

View From Here: A Potpourri: The tea party debacle shutdown of the federal government kept us busy in weeks past. In that time good ideas were bandied about the inter...

View From Here: Shut Up ~ Open Up

View From Here: Shut Up ~ Open Up: So the federal shutdown is over and the federal government has reopened its doors and full functions. The debt ceiling has been extended ...

View From Here: Restoring Balance

View From Here: Restoring Balance: The NBC/Esquire poll results show the American public is not only centrist in political thinking, but the range of centrist support is ve...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Please read this quote from Anthony Douglas Williams. Think about it this weekend. Let its words permeate your mind. At the end of the we...

View From Here: Getting it Straight

View From Here: Getting it Straight: Making a family. Making a living. Making a career, or several. Making out(!) Making friends. Making home. A lot of ‘making’. Effort to do...

View From Here: Too Good Not to Share

View From Here: Too Good Not to Share: A family member shared the posting below. It mirrors much of what I feel about the current state of government. I am posting it for my re...

View From Here: Moving On

View From Here: Moving On: Getting a new idea is one thing. Letting an old idea go is another. Sometimes I've found old ideas have to go away, disappear to ...

View From Here: Shutdown - 6

View From Here: Shutdown - 6: Getting close to the debt ceiling cliff. Murmurs from Washington DC indicate the free fall may be averted at the last minute, but then ...

View From Here: Shutdown - 5

View From Here: Shutdown - 5: By the time this item is posted the shutdown may be history. Maybe not.  But we can still hope! Assuming it remains an ongoing specte...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Reflecting on one’s own life is a necessary effort. A time to pause and see the self clearly. Not easy to ...

View From Here: Shutdown - 4

View From Here: Shutdown - 4: And the government shutdown continues its toll. Basic things with little expense associated with them are now eliminated for the time bei...

View From Here: Shut Down - 3

View From Here: Shut Down - 3: A former president had this to say about negotiating with parts of the American political family: “We cannot negotiate with people wh...

View From Here: 17 Years and Counting

View From Here: 17 Years and Counting: During the President Clinton’s administration 17 years ago, Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government rather than admit Cl...

View From Here: Kind and Free

View From Here: Kind and Free: Nelson Mandela is one of History’s heroes. Imprisoned for 27 years for leading the opposition to apartheid in South Africa , he continue...

View From Here: Anniversary of Caring

View From Here: Anniversary of Caring: I began writing this blog on October 4, 2011. Over two years of nearly daily writing. I said at the beginning this was a personal journal...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Fair Earnings Benjamin Harrison was the 23 rd President of the United States , 1889 to 1893.  He said this: “I pity the man who ...

View From Here: Building Blocks

View From Here: Building Blocks: This is an old story. We have heard it many times before. You know the one – if you give a person a fish, they eat for that day; teach th...

View From Here: Building Blocks

View From Here: Building Blocks: This is an old story. We have heard it many times before. You know the one – if you give a person a fish, they eat for that day; teach th...

View From Here: Party Accountability

View From Here: Party Accountability: The pendulum swings back on its arc. The path becomes clearer now. Public accountability and practicality appears to be looming out of th...

View From Here: Settling - Part 2

View From Here: Settling - Part 2: Spent more than half a day visiting a rural community in Northern Illinois . Population 7500, a focus on agriculture, but a renaissance s...