View From Here: Going into Fall

View From Here: Going into Fall: This is a lovely time of year. The end of summer and the beginning of fall. The kids are going back to school, commuting patterns are retur...

View From Here: Rocky & Doctors

View From Here: Rocky & Doctors: Friday, August 26 we visited an otolaryngologist surgeon. That’s a specialist who operates in the area of the neck and all of the complex f...

View From Here: The Power of Yes (More of Meg’s Story)

View From Here: The Power of Yes (More of Meg’s Story): Most people think their efforts don’t matter. They don’t like thinking that, of course, but they do. Their rhetorical question is – ‘whatev...

View From Here: Back to Meg!

View From Here: Back to Meg!: Let us fill out Meg’s profile some more. At 80 years of age Meg has filled her life with doing things for other people, and doing thin...

View From Here: Centrist Political Concerns

View From Here: Centrist Political Concerns: I will attempt here to list the issues most centrists are concerned with. Each of these items helps define what a centrist is as well. Note...

View From Here: Global Initiatives

View From Here: Global Initiatives: A funny thing is happening. Just as the world community gets a fresh dose of energy and spirit to solve global problems, a counter dose of ...

View From Here: Bits and Pieces

View From Here: Bits and Pieces: Olympic Embarrassment What more can be said? Lochte and pals acted like teenager delinquents and tried to cover it up. They got caught ...

View From Here: Poisoned Journalism

View From Here: Poisoned Journalism: We have a problem. We have reactionary journalists working among us. These are writers and news organizations (I use the term loosely) who ...

View From Here: Building On Meg’s Story

View From Here: Building On Meg’s Story: We last left Meg when the Mendeles’ were sharing her home with her. That chapter lasted just six months. Emilio secured a job in a small ma...

View From Here: America's Political Primer

View From Here: America's Political Primer: We have been talking about many issues these past several years. Most are very important to all of us. Work these issues to their perfectio...

View From Here: More on Meg

View From Here: More on Meg: What’s can an 80-year old single woman expect in her golden years in the year 2016? And living alone in the city of Chicago – nearly 3 mil...

View From Here: More about Meg

View From Here: More about Meg: We met Meg in yesterday’s post. Let’s visit her again and see what’s doing. She has lived in her immediate neighborhood for 7 years. We...

View From Here: Her Name is Meg

View From Here: Her Name is Meg: Her name is Meg. Meg Ranglon. She is seen now weeding her front yard in Chicago . Near the front walk, she has found a patch of weeds in he...

View From Here: Pushing Boundaries

View From Here: Pushing Boundaries: You are getting along in your day. Routines beckon and you perform them. Automatically without much thinking. That’s why we call them routi...

View From Here: Police Violence and Labor Shortage

View From Here: Police Violence and Labor Shortage: Two more bits and pieces. Just commenting on issues that seem hot in the media these days. Just different perspectives. This is what makes ...

View From Here: Olympics and Hillary

View From Here: Olympics and Hillary: Again there are so many stories happening around the globe and within our own country that it is difficult to land on just one and give it ...

View From Here: Inventing New Tomorrows

View From Here: Inventing New Tomorrows: I'm currently involved in strategic planning with a volunteer group I’m associated with. Most of us are of retirement age. All of us ar...

View From Here: Frick and Frack

View From Here: Frick and Frack: Fiddle Dee and Fiddle Dum. The old children's stories and fantasies. Opposites. The Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his Wife could eat ...

View From Here: Battling Cable

View From Here: Battling Cable: Let’s see now, our AT&T cable bill was $95 per month including taxes. This included our wi-fi computer internet service coupled with ou...

View From Here: Waiting / Getting Results

View From Here: Waiting / Getting Results: W e’ve been going through a medical drama lately. It all began with Rocky getting a bad case of laryngitis. That was 11 weeks ago. Two and ...

View From Here: Waiting / Getting Results

View From Here: Waiting / Getting Results: W e’ve been going through a medical drama lately. It all began with Rocky getting a bad case of laryngitis. That was 11 weeks ago. Two and ...

View From Here: Home Prices

View From Here: Home Prices: I’ve said it before and I will say it yet again – We are seeking the new normal, not the return of the old normal. The old is gone forever;...