View From Here: History and Life

View From Here: History and Life: It’s all there: the story of mankind’s life on the planet. From many sources we have learned what early man did as he encountered his lif...

View From Here: Bloody Times Again

View From Here: Bloody Times Again: News is frustrating. Good and bad items are reported. People helping people warm our hearts. Crime and violence chill us. Politics often ...

View From Here: Daring to Envision the Future

View From Here: Daring to Envision the Future: When things are fine, the weather perfect, health A-OK, finances pumped and the family happy, we can think of pleasant things in the futu...

View From Here: Getting Along with Others

View From Here: Getting Along with Others: Walking into my place of work was pleasant. I’m retired now, but then I was convivial, friendly and outgoing. I came to know many of the pe...

View From Here: Miscellaneous Thoughts

View From Here: Miscellaneous Thoughts: Hair: I kind of like how my hair is growing out. It is more brown than grey, and the few flecks of grey focus on the temples. Looks kind...

View From Here: Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Psychiatry

View From Here: Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Psychiatry: The title is a mouthful. Four major fields of education and research. All based on social science as opposed to empirical science. But al...

View From Here: Memorial Day

View From Here: Memorial Day: Today is for memories. Memories of people now gone from our lives. Gone, but not forgotten. This day is set aside in America to remi...

View From Here: Commercial Real Estate Future?

View From Here: Commercial Real Estate Future?: Before the pandemic commercial real estate was shifting away from department stores and the usual retail spaces. The life-changing retail a...

View From Here: Impermanence of Temporary

View From Here: Impermanence of Temporary: Drafting an army during war seems severe public policy. A person’s freedom and career choices are stripped from his personhood. This seem...

View From Here: Future of Small Business

View From Here: Future of Small Business: Yes, small businesses have a future. It is NOT an oxymoron. Why? Because entrepreneurial spirit is a strong human characteristic. Pe...

View From Here: Pandemic Politics

View From Here: Pandemic Politics: An elected official who disagrees with another elected official that outranks him, needs to keep his criticisms private unless he is cert...

View From Here: Recovery: Economy, Morals and Purpose

View From Here: Recovery: Economy, Morals and Purpose: Recovery from what? And to what are we returning? Definition, please! While we’re at it, let’s define economy, morals and purpose in rela...

View From Here: Pandemic and Small Businesses

View From Here: Pandemic and Small Businesses: SCORE mentors help entrepreneurs start small businesses. We also help existing small businesses survive challenges that otherwise would s...

View From Here: Double Check Charlie

View From Here: Double Check Charlie: Once I worked as an auditor. I was tasked to determine that routine transactions were done properly so as not to cheat the customer, a su...

View From Here: Wall of Fear

View From Here: Wall of Fear: Disease runs rampant among us. People fall ill. Worst cases transported to hospital emergency facilities. Pandemic cases separated from o...

View From Here: Dystopia

View From Here: Dystopia: If you are having trouble defining the word, look it up. Google is great! Utopia is the concept of perfect – day, life, society, etc...

View From Here: Support for Small Businesses

View From Here: Support for Small Businesses: Recently, a Facebook rant against the Small Business Administration turned into a broadside with the conclusion that the government is go...

View From Here: Moving Forward

View From Here: Moving Forward: Social distancing is likely to be with us for several months, maybe over a year? Social gatherings will be moderated to 25 or fewer? Mask...

View From Here: Vision = Power

View From Here: Vision = Power: American business claims cash is king. Cash makes businesses flexible and agile so they can change with market shifts. Technology is also...

View From Here: Community

View From Here: Community: What is community? I have had Catholic nuns in my life. One family member and two in particular among meaningful friendships. In kno...

View From Here: Hope and Trust

View From Here: Hope and Trust: What I hope for is dependent on what I trust. This is a basic reality of life. I can only hope for things to happen in a surrounding...

View From Here: Topics Needing Our Attention

View From Here: Topics Needing Our Attention: Much discussion, debate, and argument in the news and on social media these days. Time to cut to the basics. In my view the top attention...

View From Here: False Positives in a Pandemic

View From Here: False Positives in a Pandemic: I’m not referring to false positive test results for new drugs or vaccines. I’m referring to the false hopes expressed by many investors ...

View From Here: Staying Positive in a Sea of Doubt

View From Here: Staying Positive in a Sea of Doubt: Moments after a press briefing on the pandemic, opposing views are heard. Pundits. Journalists for conservative publications, democrat or...

View From Here: America’s Best Feature

View From Here: America’s Best Feature: Ponder what makes our nation good, even great. Ponder what made us great in the first place. Then consider what will likely make us great...

View From Here: Too Many Voices

View From Here: Too Many Voices: In quarantine, some regions are strict, others lax. Some are not under orders to shelter in place. As some families become stir crazy, ot...

View From Here: Viral Politics

View From Here: Viral Politics: COVID-19 infections grow nationwide. The numbers reveal a spread from coast to coast and from Mexico to Canada. Each of those nations hav...

View From Here: Doctor’s Appointment

View From Here: Doctor’s Appointment: Friday morning I had my annual physical. I went to my clinic’s Wheaton facility. Large and well-staffed. With many specialties available....

View From Here: Ideology, Again!

View From Here: Ideology, Again!: The conservative versus liberal debate goes on. The coronavirus pandemic only exacerbates it. With time on their hands, the ideologues, h...

View From Here: Day 41

View From Here: Day 41: In Illinois we have been sheltered in place for 41 days. We note changing traffic patterns, weather fronts, seasons, and dawns and dusks....