View From Here: We Are Family!

View From Here: We Are Family!: A great old song filling the heart and soul with excitement and vigor. Remember it well. Not usually by sort of music, but then I was worki...

View From Here: Being An American

View From Here: Being An American: Black, Irish, Latino and Latina, Chinese, South American, female, male, gay, straight, transgender, bisexual, lesbian, foreign or native bo...

View From Here: Letting Go, Being Real

View From Here: Letting Go, Being Real: It is not an easy thing to be real. Authentic is a better word. Being authentic means being willing to just be, let go the restrictions of ...

View From Here: Alt-Left vs Alt Right

View From Here: Alt-Left vs Alt Right: There is no such thing. Alt-Right maybe is a thing, but there is no Alt-Left. In the old day – that would be at least 20 years ago and more...

View From Here: Tax Cuts & Trickle Down Myths

View From Here: Tax Cuts & Trickle Down Myths: No tax cut is free. By its very nature it is a reduction of income for the taxing body. That means either the taxing body does its job w...

View From Here: Writing

View From Here: Writing: Writing anything at all is easy; having it mean something is another matter. One thing I have learned, though, having anything mean somethi...

View From Here: Trump’s Afghanistan

View From Here: Trump’s Afghanistan: It was inevitable that America would wage military might in Afghanistan to rout out Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. George W Bush and Dick Cheney...

View From Here: Violence Begets Peace?

View From Here: Violence Begets Peace?: After the terror comes peace. The attack stuns, injures, maims and kills. It is awful. The mind reels during the attack, not knowing the wh...

View From Here: Bannon is First Step; the Second…

View From Here: Bannon is First Step; the Second…: Bannon should never have been associated with anyone running for public office, let alone the presidency. To have him associated with donal...

View From Here: Just Desserts

View From Here: Just Desserts: W hat comes around goes around. Cast your bread upon the water and it will return a thousand-fold. Many other quotes could be included here...

View From Here: What's Next?

View From Here: What's Next?: Having called for the removal of all powers from the sitting president of the United States – at least temporarily – I’m not sure what m...

View From Here: Small Town America

View From Here: Small Town America: Sunday drives through the country. In Illinois there’s a lot of country. Back many years I had an old, fun convertible – an ’87 Ford Musta...

View From Here: Fear and Ignorance

View From Here: Fear and Ignorance: Interesting. A fear sensed by one person is softened by another and comfort given. Yet another person wields the sensed fear as a tool, a c...

View From Here: What Now?

View From Here: What Now?: I am not a fan of donald trump. I am a fan of law and order and process. I appreciate cool minds analyzing problems and considering an arra...

View From Here: Being Positive in a Negative Time

View From Here: Being Positive in a Negative Time: Not easy. Not easy at all. So much negativity. So much power to do ill. How do we keep positive in such a climate? No; not easily done at a...

View From Here: Two Bratty Kids

View From Here: Two Bratty Kids: One was given a fortune to do with as he pleased. He was also enrolled in private schools that would take him, and which wouldn’t with a fa...

View From Here: Little Engine That Does

View From Here: Little Engine That Does: One of my favorite books I read over and over again when I was a tot was “The Little Engine that Could.” Small and good at the tasks it was...

View From Here: Saying it is So

View From Here: Saying it is So: For many years now I have been saying something that puzzles me. With almost disbelief I hear political thoughts expressed and wonder how t...

View From Here: Welcome the Tired and Poor

View From Here: Welcome the Tired and Poor: I am writing this on Friday, August 4 th . I am posting it today, Monday, August 7 th . I will re-edit it before publishing it. It will be ...

View From Here: Beginning to Show

View From Here: Beginning to Show: Unraveling an establishment is beginning to show. Unpredictability first, then more, until chaos reigns. Decisions made in quiet solitude, ...

View From Here: Voice, Face and Feel

View From Here: Voice, Face and Feel: Some years ago a small band of us formed a community newspaper and began writing stories covering our town. Our Letters to the Editor secti...

View From Here: Order and Chaos?

View From Here: Order and Chaos?: Walk into a room, any room and tell me your first impressions. Is it pleasant in appearance? What about the volume of space? Is it appropri...

View From Here: Challenges Galore

View From Here: Challenges Galore: I have said in this space many times before that the current era of American unrest is similar to that of the 1960’s. Back then the era res...