my perceptions of history as it relates to politics, religion, philosophy, and events in my life.
The Wall Street Journal had an article about, yes, a magnetic train that may becoming to the U.S. soon. In fact, engineers want to build it between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Some that take that commute by car daily say it can take up to an hour...
From my true love, you ask?? NO! From U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) actual wild horses of which according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, there are some 55,000 herding and roaming and eating their way around the current Wild West! The...
There's a controversy on college campuses now regarding what's proper speech. In today's Wall Street Journal, the president of the University of Chicago, Robert Zimmer, weighed in on the discussion. He had some good points. While the left currently has...
Yesterday, (today I'm back home in Denver - finally!) we were atop Independence Pass at 12,095 feet above sea level. It was windy and very, very cool at noon. Independence Pass is on the road from Buena Vista to Aspen, just past Twin Lakes. The area is...
We, my brother and I, just passed over Wolf Creek Pass in SW Colorado, the San Juan Mountains. I was disappointed. The last time I saw the area was 25-30 years ago. It HAS changed. I remember it being a much wilder area then; now the ski area is there...
Mabel Luhan lived in Taos, NM (where I am currently visiting) and probably lived most of her life here. She was a great promoter of the arts in this area - painting and writing. She was also terribly wealthy. She also had several husbands and several...
I started reading The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvois. Simone was a paramour of Jean Paul Sartre. She was France's second most brilliant and popular philosopher next to him, and in fact finished second on the nation-wide philosophy exam for university...
Mr. Ellison, an African-American, published his controversial novel Invisible Man in the early 1950's. He relates the struggles of an anonymous black male... in essence to escape his anonymity and figurative invisibility to white society. The narrator...
What's a headache, you ask? Sometimes, just about everything! I think my headaches come from pain and problems with my neck, just plain stress and tension, sinus troubles (due in part of course to our poluted air) and maybe just getting older and not...
