What has happened to our country? Are the godless communists are taking over?Are the Haitian immigrants eating our dogs and cats? Are our elections rigged? Are soccer teams from shithole countries defiling our beloved football stadiums?(NOTE: Ten African countries...

  Poets, authors and painters love me. I don’t always agree with their work but all attention is good attention as some politician said. Take Sandburg. "The fog comes on little cat feet.” I don’t like cats but the sentence is charming. People like it and it softens my...

 “I don’t understand how you pray for your neighbor, and then prey on your neighbor with policies that literally crush the poor.” Senator Rafael WarnockHe then cited a passage from the Bible to give even more weight to his comment: "Now this was the sin of your sister...

 The United States is celebrating its Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) this year on July 4, 2026, marking 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. The official celebration has turned into “a melange of Trumpian...

How to be, that is the question. I was raised by divorced parents. I lived with my mother, a practicing Catholic, and visited my father, a free mason, on school vacations. I learned to live in a world where people have different beliefs. From my mother, I learned...

 When a woman asked where he saw his visions, the poet and artist William Blake reportedly tapped his forehead and replied, "Here, Madam.” Blake believed his imagination was a divine, infinite space rather than external, physical phenomenon.Blake experienced his first...

 This post is personal. Last Saturday, May 2nd, the Fort Bragg High School Timberwolf baseball team was invited by the Justin Siena High School Braves from the Napa Valley to play a game at the San Francisco Giants field in Oracle Park. It wasn't free. A lot of money...

 I discovered books at a young age. I knew immediately there was something important between the covers, something to be decoded. I learned to read and I was hooked. I grew up in a small rural town. There were no bookstores. I discovered I could order paperback books...

“It’s not the notes you play. It’s the notes you don’t play.”   Miles DavisAccording to Merriam Webster: Interstices are small, narrow gaps, crevices, or spaces between closely spaced objects or parts commonly referring to cracks in walls, spaces between atoms, or...