View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Ponder what is important in your life. Is it the Super Bowl and the social gathering it affords at this time of year? Or is it the peop...

View From Here: What Goes Around

View From Here: What Goes Around: We are fans of HGTV – Home and Garden Television. We watch it during the day. We follow our favorite shows, mostly Fixer Upper from Waco ...

View From Here: Spying/Life-giving?

View From Here: Spying/Life-giving?: Rocky and I have turned into intrepid marathon viewers of recorded TV series. We like those series that may very well be off the air now,...

View From Here: Living Fully

View From Here: Living Fully: Each day we live out our routine. Each day we have time gaps that allow us to do something different than on other days. But few of us al...

View From Here: Patterned Memories

View From Here: Patterned Memories: Do others experience this sort of thing? A movement, routine nearly on a daily basis, triggers a moment once experienced years ago? F...

View From Here: State of the Union

View From Here: State of the Union: I think President Obama did a masterful job at the State of the Union address. In short I think his message was one of leadership and non...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: State of the Union . What is your thought on this topic? Are you satisfied with the state of America ? If no, what would you think needs ...

View From Here: Crashing Oil Prices

View From Here: Crashing Oil Prices: What does it mean? Here are a few topics we could explore related to oil prices. Saudi Arabia will not reduce production to ste...

View From Here: Taxes: Rich or Poor?

View From Here: Taxes: Rich or Poor?: President Obama is challenging America and the Republicans on taxes. Republicans have chanted the broken record of ‘lower taxes’ for dec...

View From Here: Freedom

View From Here: Freedom: OK, so today is January 21 st but I’m writing this piece on Monday, January 19 th . This is the day set apart as a national holiday markin...

View From Here: Reflections on Ann O’Connor

View From Here: Reflections on Ann O’Connor: Yesterday’s blog was the obituary of Ann O'Connor of Syracuse , New York .  Ann died on Saturday, January 17 at the age of 81. Thos...

View From Here: The Passing of a Friend

View From Here: The Passing of a Friend: With a heavy heart and a long look to the past I share this obituary from the Syracuse Post-Standard Newspaper. By   Ken Sturtz | k...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Think outside the box this weekend. What one idea could you explore that you have been putting off for a long time? Is it a work-relate...

View From Here: Mid-Life Crises

View From Here: Mid-Life Crises: I've been around the circuit a few times. A lot of years to practice with! Life changes, challenges abound, we make the best of it, a...

View From Here: The Never Dry Towel

View From Here: The Never Dry Towel: Many years ago my brother in law Bruce would drop in for a visit. Those were the days when he lived in Glen Ellyn and we in Wheaton ( Il...

View From Here: Humor

View From Here: Humor: What’s funny? What isn't? This is an age-old question. Lots of answers have been attempted and some good ones, too. But I bet no one ...

View From Here: Tearing Up?

View From Here: Tearing Up?: That title is a little misleading. It can be read in two different ways. At least! The first is probably tearing up as in ripping up or apa...

View From Here: Texas

View From Here: Texas: Have you ever wondered what it would be like growing up in Texas ? All that land, sand and mesquite. Hot and dry. Rolling landscape with ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Taking the risk to be you. It is a big step to take. What do you want from life? What are you capable of doing? What interests you the ...

View From Here: Russia’s Woes

View From Here: Russia’s Woes: The polls in Russia appear to give Putin credibility among his countrymen. They believe him when he says the West has done in Russia ’s ...

View From Here: Getting There

View From Here: Getting There: No, we are not on a road trip. The kids are not wailing, nor repeatedly asking ‘are we there yet?’ Rather, today’s message is about ‘gett...

View From Here: Commute

View From Here: Commute: Our apartment is across the street from a major commuter rail station. Hundreds of cars park in the lot. More hundreds enter the lot and ...

View From Here: Body Shape

View From Here: Body Shape: Well now! A little honesty. I don’t like my body shape. I think about it some. I know I’m lumpy and have flabby bits that are unattractiv...

View From Here: Dumping Stuff

View From Here: Dumping Stuff: Mail comes in. Not all of it is read. Some is questionable as to value. An ad? A donation request? Notice of a new business opening up in...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Good things happen when just one person thinks it is so. That gathers support from others made aware of it. And so slowly, the good thi...

View From Here: Big Goals

View From Here: Big Goals: At the onstart of a fresh year it seems logical to focus on the primary goals we ought to spend our treasure – all of our treasure includ...

View From Here: Hello 2015!

View From Here: Hello 2015!: It’s time to say hello to the new year. Good riddance to 2014. It was a tough year health wise for a lot of people.   For us as well. Age ...