November 2025

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be one of two things, as I recall.  The first was an Olympic swimmer, a gold medalist. I blame this wholly on Mark Spitz and his incredible performance at the 1972 Munich Olympics.  He won seven gold medals, which was a record at the […]

All of us have crossed a bridge at some point in our lives.  In the physical sense, a bridge might be made of wood, concrete, or steel.  It probably stretched over some river or creek somewhere.  We might have looked over the side as we crossed, thinking about all the things that might have been

Do you think words wear clothes?  Or maybe they hold a picture in your mind?  Like the word lace. Or sugar.  Or cliff. What about the word sinecure (noun | SYE-nih-kyoor)?  It sounds like “sin a cure.” If we could all just sin a cure for all the bad things in the world. That would

I love photography.  It has an engaging way of stopping time.  One little frame, and suddenly you’re thrust back into your very own history. Or perhaps someone else’s. The photo might be of people. But it can be anything.  One of my favorite genres is wildlife photography, from the hefty polar bear to the slow

Lately, I have been thinking about the Nuremberg Trials.  I see a lot of this same unthinkable hatred building in the United States right now.  I’ve also seen and heard those same ideologies taking shape here in our country. But stepping back in history, many people aren’t especially familiar with these trials. It was quite

Cars. We all know them, and we all drive them. They take us to and fro.When they were invented, they were meant for transportation. But it didn’t take long before they became a sport. People driving those cars at high, high speeds. There have been many of those drivers throughout history.  Unfortunately some of them