May 2024

Some people are bothered by their ages. The number of years they have been walking around on the planet. Others simply see it as that — a number. Mostly, for me, age has never been a thing. Maybe it is because I’ve always been the youngest. I’m the youngest of my siblings. All of my […]

Weird. Wouldn’t you say? What is weird, though? I mean, one person’s “weird” could be another person’s “normal.” We’ve probably all picked our noses at one time or another. But doing it while standing in line at the busy grocery store is, well, a little weird. Even still, weird has a way of touching our

There is a beginning and an end. To everything. Or is there? Infinity certainly has neither. From our everyday experiences, right here on this planet, we see that things are born, grow, change, and eventually die or cease to exist. All living things seem to follow this pattern. And as far as the Universe goes,

H2O That’s two molecules of hydrogen bonded to one molecule of oxygen. And there we have the elixir of life. Water. We need it. But here is the thing. Since 1999, nearly all parts of the United States have experienced at least some drought. This trend is happening all over the world. Wouldn’t you think,

Lead By Example By Linda Stowe The first political campaign I remember was when Dwight Eisenhower ran against Adlai Stevenson. It was 1952 and I was eight years old at the time. For some reason I thought the candidate’s name was Artsy Stevenson, maybe because I had never heard the name Adlai before. Regardless, I

I love birds.But here is the thing.The bird populations are declining mostly because of us dumb, dumb humans and our numb-skulled treatment of the Earth. The biodiversity crisis has come directly to our backyards. I recently read that in less than a single human lifetime, 2.9 billion breeding adult birds have been lost from the

Have you ever noticed that those “creative types” can sometimes be quirky? If you are laughing because I am the pot, calling the kettle black, I understand. Guilty as charged. But I’m on the low end of the creative scale, so my “quirks” are down there with me, maybe. Anyway. The “heavy hitters” in the