This  Piece Has Been Coming For A Long Time… I have spoken of Deering frequently in these pages — mostly about people who have gone there, been touched by the place, led there, been to either reunion, and/or are leading in their communities now. I treasure those people and that place — and this year, I…

I hate it when friends fight. A day or two ago, I posted on Facebook something about Obamacare and the insurance companies response to it. People are still fighting about it. I go online and I play a game and the chat section of it has people arguing about Obamacare. Really? Aliens, bad guys, superheroes,…

I just saw two brothers in my office this evening who had — between them, in a week — pushed a kid, accidentally slammed a kid’s hand in a locker, “jokingly” strangled a kid who was 3 years younger than him, and (seeing nothing wrong with it) twisted a male peer’s nipple, in a thing…

I was listening to NPR this morning on the way to the train and there was a long piece about the Syrian government possibly using Sarin gas on its opposition and there being video of it. The other day, in this country, “an Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was…

Once again, I was reading the Huffington Post, and once again, some bigot in government said that people who use welfare or food stamps or some program or other are “freeloaders”. I have moved past the point of caring whether he or she thinks nothing bad ever happens to anybody. It does. People lose their…

Random! (Or maybe not) Thoughts at 10,000 hits… As of this morning on my way to work, I finally achieved 10,000 hits (views) on my blog. I say “finally” because the last three blog articles were about exceptionally cool people and I thought that they would each get way more hits. That’s the nature of…