Editors Note: Perhaps the only moderate ad we will see this season so it earned my monthly interest award. Note it is Montana so this is not a partisan statement.
Barbara Cartland said, “You become what you think. You are what you eat”. I heard a similar quote in the 1970s and it has come back to me many times...
Joke of the Month: Thanks to an article in Country Living I found this assortment of Dad jokes. I still consider it a compliment that my kids called me “Clark...
Editor’s comment: Thanks to Mike Utesch for sending this new RL song onto me. With all that’s going down in all our lives, I love the very thought of...
Editor’s note: Thanks to friend, Frank Dixon, for turning me onto Giffels, a local (Akron) professor and writer. Don’t let the theme of building his own coffin (yes, that’s the...
Editor’s note: My life has essentially been a (still) unending struggle to move from deficit to surplus thinking. I’m making progress. Original Article: In our culture, it’s easy to choose...
Editor’s note: Two reasons to avoid this book, kindly referenced by my friend, Joe Gibson: a. you’re looking for recreational reading (I had to strain to stay on track) or...
“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp...
Because self-knowledge is the most difficult of the arts of living, because understanding ourselves is a prerequisite for understanding anybody else, and because we can hardly fathom the reality of...
Events in the lives of each of our three children are becoming opportunities for their personal reinvention. Each are facing major life changes and so they must decide who they...
Editor's Note: I recently heard this and fell in love with Blaze's honest voice, guitar and melody. I also have a penchant for lullabies. (Kevin McCarthy) Favorite Lyric: Moonlight bathes...
By Harold Kushner, “When Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough”
June 30, 2020
“As a rabbi, I’ve attending many people at their death and I believe it is not dying that we are afraid of. Something else, something even more unsettling, even more...
Editor’s comment: I read too many books this month since we are essentially still in lockdown here. None were particularly good, I’m sorry to say, and I tried fiction...
by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina Editor’s note: During the lockdown, my about-to-be 7 year old grandson drew a picture of our house and sent it to me with...