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“Do you know why the barber’s pole has blue and red stripes?”. That was the question he’d asked us that prompted what turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable conversation. A conversation between four strangers, on a random afternoon, at an empty park, surrounded…   Read More →

As a child my diet was atrocious. I was raised on the Standard American Diet. It was packaged, processed, “fast”, and loaded with sugar and vegetable oils in all their inglorious forms. I rarely ate any type of meat. My twenty-something year old body…   Read More →

[Ding] I’m here. I grab my purse, tell Mom I’ll be back in about an hour, and run out the door. It’s ridiculous how excited I get when I have an opportunity to leave the house – to go grocery shopping no less. Not…   Read More →

I hear her feet softly shuffle towards my door. I close my eyes and pretend I am still asleep even though I’ve been awake in dreamy contemplation for the last hour. My thoughts often float to my husband as the cold of the morning…   Read More →

This is a story that many have told. It touches every life eventually. Circumstances may differ but the result is always the same. There is the struggle that precedes the leaving. This is the first chapter in our race to find peace within the…   Read More →

No, I’m not going to prattle on about Bill Gates. Well, maybe just a little bit. It’s just that smug mug, and what it represents to me, just happens to work as a good Truth-Tees segue. I do wonder why he has been so…   Read More →

Six feet of space. Six degrees of separation. Six steps to communism. Are we digging our own graves? This video was recorded impromptu at a Idaho Freedom Rally. Please listen to this woman’s story as she recounts her life under Communism, her harrowing escape,…   Read More →

What shall we call our current state of affairs? We seem to be unwitting props and unpaid extras in a real-time film noir. Let’s call it… “Dances with Fools” in homage to filmographies epic American Western of similar name. The stars of this production…   Read More →

Mother’s Day is upon us and this year I decided to share my thoughts about this calendar honored day. This isn’t going to be a sugary one-dimensional tribute. My mom, she has her flaws and foibles and she never pretends otherwise.  In my estimate,…   Read More →

There’s a lot of talk about what qualifies as essential these days. The re-framing of language has led to much confusion in the ranks. Let’s keep it simple. You are essential. I am essential. We are intelligent beings capable of incalculable goodness and great…   Read More →