Something good-- the summer solstice, where the longest day of the year yields way to the change of seasons with eventually shorter days. ...

    Although I had no intention on writing more about cultural issues, events occurred that changed my mind. Over time, I've heard plent...

    As a writer, and especially of historical novels, I find research a key to the stories, but my love for history began as a child with th...

  Cairns can be seen across the American SW to mark the way of a path. Most not are not piled as elaborately as this one, acquired through...

Currently, due to tragedy after tragedy in the United States, some from before Trump and some after, with people throwing out anger every wh...

   image from Stencil and our sunset photo from 2019 After writing a blog a about age-ism, I planned on a follow-up. That was until this wee...

  As best I know it about mass shootings in the United States, they are not related to poverty. So, why is poverty a topic for issues? There...

  Last blog, I said this one would not be on political thinking... I meant it at the time and had a blog from something at our desert home, ...

Let's start with defining socialism as I think some don't get its full meaning. Here it is from the dictionary:  ...

  In a time where we might find ourselves on the brink of a third world war, when we discover there is so much hatred in the world for one e...

  view out our bedroom window of Pusch Ridge and clouds typical of our monsoon season down here. There are a LOT of things going on in our w...

  After I wrote about woke, I felt I'd write about how it relates to writing books. Naturally, I can't go into it for all authors, j...

  This week, it occurred to me that a topic I wanted to write about was the word 'woke.' Immediately, I next thought, are you nuts! ...

    image from Stencil Where I don't generally do politics here, this seems a good time to discuss the State of the Union. Why do we hav...