Category Archives: AUGUST 2020

I cannot imagine not having the U.S. Postal Service. It has been struggling for several years now. Postage for a standard letter stamp in 1960 cost only $.04. Today it costs $.55 – nearly fourteen times the cost sixty years … Continue reading →

What will it take before we begin to take global warming seriously? We have had several days of temperatures in the upper 90ᐤF.’s and zero chance of rain. The next several days are predicted to be the same. There is … Continue reading →

I stated in the first chapter of Question Everything, “Our planet and our very lives hang upon a precarious precipice”. I went on to say, “It is the wakeup call for which you did not set the alarm”. I first … Continue reading →

There have been times when I wished I could escape…sit in a bar and drink myself into oblivion; but alcohol is not my friend. I can have one beer, but those times when I foolishly convinced myself that I could … Continue reading →

I remember watching March of the Penguins and wondering how each parent can find the other among thousands. When I see huge flocks of birds too, it is bewildering how they know their own mate and offspring. However; when I … Continue reading →

How often have you made a purchase and brought an item home, and as you began removing the packaging, you noticed the fine print with the warning, “May cause cancer and reproductive harm”?  Most of these warnings originate in the … Continue reading →

August is a bittersweet month. Many of the early spring flowers have faded. Mercifully, there are others such as aster, goldenrod, mums, Joe Pye weed, and helenium, that wait until late summer to grace us with color. A few perennial … Continue reading →

The many unreasonable restrictions placed on the general public to slow the spread of COVID19, has gotten way out of hand. People have gone too far in devising schemes to protect them from their fear – and indeed, their fear … Continue reading →

There comes a time in a person’s life when she must finally let go of her dreams and simply be content with what is. The day dawns when the old must realize that hope is only for the young. We … Continue reading →

When I was suddenly and unexpectedly put in charge of the swan collection, I was thrilled beyond belief; but I was also worried about those things I knew that I would need to do – things I had never been … Continue reading →