View From Here: Let’s Talk

View From Here: Let’s Talk: Conversation. People sharing ideas and thoughts. Ideas are creative and connect with many topics and embrace starkly differing themes. T...

View From Here: Blog Traffic

View From Here: Blog Traffic: Each day I post to my blog. Each day I review traffic to the site. It is not a total view because I also share my posts to Facebook. Rea...

View From Here: Challenge and Possibility

View From Here: Challenge and Possibility: Busy times. Even for a retiree. Family doings and household chores. Significant birthdays and chaotic public news. Cycles of news. A wav...

View From Here: Stretching

View From Here: Stretching: "You can do anything if you want to badly enough." You have heard that phrase many times in your life. Your dad told you so; s...

View From Here: Silence of the Lambs

View From Here: Silence of the Lambs: No more. No more silence, of the lambs, our kids and grandkids. They speak their truth. So stark and fresh is it, many who oppose the...

View From Here: Russia and Trump

View From Here: Russia and Trump: I don’t really care what Russia did or didn’t do leading up to the 2016 US election for president. What I care about is what others are ...

View From Here: Life In These United States

View From Here: Life In These United States: What’s it like to live in America? I don’t think I specifically spoke to that question before in over 6 years of blogging, but of course...

View From Here: Millennial Power

View From Here: Millennial Power: You heard it on TV, Twitter and Facebook. Youth in Florida – many of them speaking out from the very school where last week’s mass shootin...

View From Here: School Shootings 2018

View From Here: School Shootings 2018: Bam! You’re Dead! And so it goes. In America. In 2018. A new year but still 18 shootings in schools so far in just a few weeks. And t...

View From Here: Budget, Schmudget

View From Here: Budget, Schmudget: [Note: I'll have something on the Florida school shooting later; have to think about it!] Shenanigans abound in Washington, DC. Al...

View From Here: Valentine’s Day 2018

View From Here: Valentine’s Day 2018: Another holiday of sorts. Valentine’s Day celebrates romantic love in many cultures. Sharing written greetings with one another is one r...

View From Here: Promises, Promises

View From Here: Promises, Promises: In our age of propaganda, promises don’t mean much. Especially when made by a politician. Especially true when made by any republican it...

View From Here: Credit vs Blame

View From Here: Credit vs Blame: We must stop doing this, people! If something good happens, who takes the credit? If a bad happening, who gets the blame? Our media d...

View From Here: Defining Moments

View From Here: Defining Moments: What are the key things that define who we are as Americans? Let’s take a stab at that. 1.      Inventive: new technologies and proce...

View From Here: Inner Voice

View From Here: Inner Voice: Each of us has an inner voice. It is the logic voice we speak with to ourselves. Silently. A conversation occurs. The conversation multi...

View From Here: Inner Voice

View From Here: Inner Voice: Each of us has an inner voice. It is the logic voice we speak with to ourselves. Silently. A conversation occurs. The conversation multi...

View From Here: Rump Groups, et. al.

View From Here: Rump Groups, et. al.: Human nature being what it is, there are always people who think they know the fuller truth about everything. And they don’t just tout t...

View From Here: Equilibrium

View From Here: Equilibrium: Balance. Stasis. One for one. Harmony. If but for a moment. Supply equals demand. Price equals value. Moment to moment. That is eq...

View From Here: Fighting for Soul

View From Here: Fighting for Soul: The question is who’s soul? Conservative or liberal? Foreign or domestic? Black or white? Female or male? Adult or child? America or all...

View From Here: Protocols of Safety

View From Here: Protocols of Safety: Only a serious student of government would know and understand many of the protocols that are employed in running our federal government...

View From Here: DUH!

View From Here: DUH!: I could not watch the state of the union speech by the occupant of the white house. I knew this was an impossibility for me a few days b...