View From Here: Up and Down Spring

View From Here: Up and Down Spring: I know it is coming. Spring is just around the corner. One day it is warm and the next cool. Rain one morning, thunderstorms late in the ...

View From Here: Living With Cable?

View From Here: Living With Cable?: We are in the throes of cutting down our cable TV bill and prepared to eliminate it entirely. Seven months ago we called AT&T and tol...

View From Here: Marching Forward

View From Here: Marching Forward: Marching suggests an energetic stepping forward in rhythm to music, shouts or other encouragement. We thrust our bodies forward in a marc...

View From Here: Today is Mom's Birthday

View From Here: Today is Mom's Birthday: I know this may not seem important to you but for our family it is. Mom is 102 years old today. That's quite a milestone in most ...

View From Here: Youth and Politics

View From Here: Youth and Politics: The vision of the future can be exciting. Fresh energy builds as we face the future and all of its possibilities. When we are experienced...

View From Here: Bits and Pieces

View From Here: Bits and Pieces: Things are little hectic here these days. Lots of appointments on the calendar, mentor sessions, organization committee meetings as well ...

View From Here: Wedding Bells, The Report

View From Here: Wedding Bells, The Report: Recently I shared via this blog that Rocky and I were getting married. That was just two or three weeks ago. We needed the legal protecti...

View From Here: Supreme Court Atilt?

View From Here: Supreme Court Atilt?: Yes it is leaning towards the right wing hegemony that matches the House of Representatives and the Senate. The problem is, left and righ...

View From Here: The Passing of Antonin Scalia

View From Here: The Passing of Antonin Scalia: I don’t have to be politically correct so I won’t. When I first learned Supreme Court Justice Scalia had died, I felt relief spread throu...

View From Here: Russia Proclaims Cold War

View From Here: Russia Proclaims Cold War: Such nonsense! Russia claims a new cold war has begun between the East and the West. Well it is true if they say so because they are the...

View From Here: Sanders or Clinton?

View From Here: Sanders or Clinton?: Much has been written that concludes Bernie Sanders is beating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President. I think this ...

View From Here: New Hampshire Lessons?

View From Here: New Hampshire Lessons?: The cavalcade of political campaigns goes on and on! What it means is not always what is seems. At least the media makes something out of...

View From Here: Hillary’s Truth

View From Here: Hillary’s Truth: Let’s list the ways political enemies have ganged up on Hillary Clinton as she campaigns for the Presidency: She’s married to Bi...

View From Here: Hillary’s Truth

View From Here: Hillary’s Truth: Let’s list the ways political enemies have ganged up on Hillary Clinton as she campaigns for the Presidency: She’s married to Bi...

View From Here: Ideal Spaces

View From Here: Ideal Spaces: Every now and again I get memory flashes. Many are from the deep past, you know, when you were a kid. Most of these recalls involve feeli...

View From Here: Rebuilding Collaborations

View From Here: Rebuilding Collaborations: Cooperation is in trouble in America . Or so it seems scanning media reports. But I think those reports are missing something. The le...

View From Here: Stepping Into the Void

View From Here: Stepping Into the Void: Think of cheese cloth. Notice the loose and open weave of it. Clearly note the woven nature of the cloth. Now, take it and pull in four d...

View From Here: Iowa’s Political Relevance

View From Here: Iowa’s Political Relevance: The caucuses are over and done with in Iowa . The winners are Hillary Clinton on the Democrat side and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. I...

View From Here: Touching Diversity

View From Here: Touching Diversity: Including diverse people in our life sounds simple. It isn’t. Anything but. Think about it. There are many points of diversity within the...

View From Here: Wedding Bells

View From Here: Wedding Bells: On Sunday, February 14, 2016 Rocky and I will be married at our church following the two usual worship services. It happens to be the mon...

View From Here: Shifting Realities

View From Here: Shifting Realities: This moment is real. Oops! There it goes, to be replaced by this moment. Now, this second, not the last second, this one, now the next! Y...