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Increasing participation…involves a concerted and concentrated effort to involve the community as a whole in what your are doing. . . . → Read More: Non-Profit Frustrations

There is something inexplicably wrong about the anger and hatred surrounding politics in our nation.  We are, after all, a nation of individuals with differing views and opinions.  We’ve been led to believe that our two-party system of government is the be-all, end-all, of democracies and that it represents the polar opposites of  all of our . . . → Read More: No Apologies

When I was a kid, and we went to visit my grand parents, one memory that stands out in my mind is the sounds from the nearby highway.  They lived outside of town in an area where the speed was just changing; increasing as they left the town and decreasing as they came into town.   . . . → Read More: Doppler

He and his friend staggered through the L tram, each with a large beer in hand.  They were African-American men dressed casually.  The young woman had shoulder length brown hair, probably a young business woman and it was pretty obvious that this wasn’t her first rodeo on the L.  One of the men turned around and . . . → Read More: The Sadness and Joy of Humanity

Should be an easy thing.  Just open your mouth and say ‘No.”  Thing is it sometimes just isn’t that easy.  I’m going to be paying for my inability to say ‘No’ this week and for several weeks to come.  Some of those ‘Yes’ answers I regret, but others I’m looking . . . → Read More: Saying ‘No’

Vicious storm clouds rolled from the North, building rapidly to the South as the whole system moved slowly Eastward.  Black boulders billowed under, with a deep gray-green center, while steam rapidly condensed and moved upwards towards the leading edge.  Cloud lightning flickered internally and the air rumbled with thunder.  This storm was going to have teeth . . . → Read More: Storm

The past year or so have been rife with stupidity.  Political stupidity to be exact-and it is not the fault of Obama necessarily, but a historical plodding methodology that has inched and sometimes vaulted business interests over those of consumers and citizens.

Highlights include in no particular order the financial disaster, brought about by piss-poor regulation, or . . . → Read More: Ruminations

No one would suspect, walking into church, that one of the song leaders would be evaluating them as they arrived.  Catholic church services in the Midwest are funny things.  There are always a handful of people who arrive early, but most seem to arrive almost all at once; Something we call, the five minute warning.  It . . . → Read More: People in View

The cat caught his claw in my pajamas because he wanted attention, and the dog came to my rescue, which didn’t exactly help.  Now I’ve got a hole in my leg where there was once only a hole in the pajamas and the dog is lying protectively, jealously, under my feet.  Managing to unhook himself and . . . → Read More: Randomness

Andre’ turned South off Hwy 23 onto a gravel road.  He wasn’t headed anywhere in particular, just needed to think.  It was Tuesday evening, and on Saturday, Julia, his girlfriend of 7 years, had left a note, leaving for good, she had said.  She hadn’t returned.  The note was not bitter or angry, just resigned.  She . . . → Read More: Wrong Turn