View From Here: Covering the Bland

View From Here: Covering the Bland: Having served four years on the local city council, and another seven years on the board of the park district, I have a good idea who the...

View From Here: Making Suggestions

View From Here: Making Suggestions: Have you ever been in a restaurant and had an idea how they could conduct their business better? What did you do about it? Did you discus...

View From Here: Aloof?

View From Here: Aloof?: Congressional voices have labeled President Obama aloof. I don’t agree. Here’s why. First, the definition of ‘aloof’: not friendly or...

View From Here: When the Going Gets Rough, Sue

View From Here: When the Going Gets Rough, Sue: So John Boner has decided to sue the President of the United States .  And he got his minion republicans in the house to go along with h...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: This post is for my republican friends. I just wanted them to think about this during the weekend and wonder what it all means: “If...

View From Here: Hum Drum Days

View From Here: Hum Drum Days: Traffic moves up and over the bridge. A freight train moves slowly through the congested center of town. Flags flap in the breeze steadil...

View From Here: Falling, falling, falling…

View From Here: Falling, falling, falling…: I usually write a blog or two ahead so I don’t have a time crunch affecting my productivity, or for that matter, affecting the quality of...

View From Here: Stupid vs Ignorant

View From Here: Stupid vs Ignorant: The term ‘stupid’ is tossed about frequently, usually as an epithet or angry sputter. Truth is different.  Stupid is mismatching facts an...

View From Here: Why?

View From Here: Why?: Yesterday’s blog talked a little about my commentary. Today I want to focus a bit on why I do this in the first place.  Probably I'...

View From Here: Commentary on Commentary

View From Here: Commentary on Commentary: So something happens. It is reported in the newspaper or on radio or TV. One’s mind digests the happening. What does it mean? What are ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: I've been keeping my eye on this quote for several days now. I’m itching to use it, so here goes: “Religion will eventually becom...

View From Here: Being of Use

View From Here: Being of Use: The Midwest has been pounded by some mighty winter storms over the years. This will likely continue; some years will be worse than usual...

View From Here: Feeling the Inside

View From Here: Feeling the Inside: I am not a cool person. I know that.  In the past some people have told me I must be a cool dad, but then they would not really know that...

View From Here: Community or Corporation?

View From Here: Community or Corporation?: These entities are similar and dissimilar. Communities are people who live together, side by side and in organizations, work spaces, char...

View From Here: Taking Care of You

View From Here: Taking Care of You: Two plus two equals four. Similarly, one plus one equals two.  I think I can draw another equation that works, as well. It is: one pl...

View From Here: Making Business

View From Here: Making Business: Building businesses. One at a time. Who does this? Who takes the responsibility to do this? Anyone? At your next soiree, ask that...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: I've been saving this quote for a while. It resonates with me heavily. Perhaps it will for you as well? “There comes a point wh...

View From Here: Making Sense Of It All

View From Here: Making Sense Of It All: I didn't get specific permission to reprint this, but I will cite the sources: Jann Arden Richards and Robert Foster from “Looking fo...

View From Here: We Can Do This!

View From Here: We Can Do This!: Turn on the news, any channel, and what do you hear? What do you see?  Here are some reminders: Ads More ads Headlines adve...

View From Here: Who Settled America First?

View From Here: Who Settled America First?: Peter “Rough” Hurech, Staffordshire , England , is thought to have visited the Mustang Mountains in Southeast Arizona and died there. ...

View From Here: Forming Opinions

View From Here: Forming Opinions: News Bulletin: Pistorius has PTSD. That is a fact. One that can be diagnosed by a doctor or a panel of doctors. It is a portion of the pi...

View From Here: Focus on Solutions

View From Here: Focus on Solutions: Let’s see the Congress hasn't put forth any solutions to any national problem recently. Plus several enormous problems have existed f...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: This weekend is a continuation of the grand 4 th of July celebration.  I hope you enjoy it thoroughly.  Last weekend was also Pride Week...

View From Here: Boom Boom Boom

View From Here: Boom Boom Boom: This is the 4 th of July. We celebrate a lot of things on this date. Independence of our nation from England at that time, but also inde...

View From Here: Remembering the 4th

View From Here: Remembering the 4th: I remember sparklers when I was somewhere around 6 years of age. It was in California and fire danger in July was super extreme most yea...

View From Here: Failing to Win? Or Winning to Fail?

View From Here: Failing to Win? Or Winning to Fail?: Bill Clinton shared this thought the other day: “I've never seen a time – can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major p...

View From Here: Rabbit, Rabbit!

View From Here: Rabbit, Rabbit!: At the beginning of each month legend has it that you are to speak the two words – rabbit, rabbit – to another person before any other wo...