Reading brings us unknown friends. ~Honoré de Balzac *** I get a lot of junk email, as you all do I'm sure, and one of them is called...

(Image courtesy of www.occupy.com) This is a response to all of the negative comments I've received concerning my poem Front of the Bus....

My dad used to always say, "nothing is free." Actually, your dad probably said that, too. I think it's in a "How to Convey Banal...

A good friend of mine on social media gave me a link to a TED talk that he thought I might find interesting. Here it is. To give you some...

A good friend posted on Facebook the question of "power." What does power mean to you? I wanted to answer in a pithy, quick manner, but...

I've got PTSD. No I wasn't in the service. No I wasn't attacked or in a car wreck. I wrote a blog. This blog was so controversial that I...

"You've got balls" is a phrase I've heard pretty much my whole life. But I'm reframing it a little to say that 'I've got balls'...as in...

From what are we hiding and what do we seek? I wonder if anyone asks themselves that question before they settle down in front of their...