My church recently posted a question on Facebook: “What are some of your Christmas traditions?” That simple question, together with learning my dad’s baby sister passed this week and there’s only my dad left from parents and their family siblings, stirred up even more the swirling cauldron in my mind that has me longing for […]
In other words, maybe it’s it about time to have fewer irons in the fire — and a whole lot fewer fires. If you’re anything like me, you understand the analogy. I mean, it’s OK to have a few varying fires — after all, I’ve heard for decades variety is the spice of life — […]
Although in this day and age of round-the-clock news, too much information based on misinformation and a seemingly unending barrage of what’s someone’s “truth,” it’s not getting any easier. Now I could write column after column until my retirement on individual topics related to the above statement, because, let’s face it, everyday there’s something to go […]
By the time you read this, the ballot measures having to do with taxes — some which laughably read “without raising taxes …” — will be decided. It’s my sincere hope none of them pass. I have myriad reasons why — including the fact government simply can’t provide all it advertises, and it’s worse when […]
It’s almost the first Tuesday in November, and we all know what that means. It’s time to take more money out of taxpayers’ pockets for our schools, roads and the children, this time with a good measure of our water tossed in. I don’t write that sentence lightly because I know it will come with […]
For some reason, it’s national news that Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen) and George W. Bush (W) were sitting at a football game, eating popcorn and having fun. You know, like 99 percent of all fans do at football games. But as it goes with everything good or natural or proper in our world these days, a […]
The “it” for my readers: Grand Junction High School. OK. I’ve now opened up the nearly 40-year-old can of worms, the oh so desperate need for our community. As things go with cans of worms, lots of chewing is involved. Allow me to state for the record a few facts I know. Yes, these are […]
Those were the words I was told by the office manager for a local physician in a very stern tone when I called to check on my daughter’s test results and the next step in trying to figure out what’s wrong with her. Think about that for a couple of reasons. First, I was checking […]
I know Denmark isn’t buying into the whole idea. But who cares? This isn’t about Denmark. This is about moving the focus in Washington, D.C. to anything other than what the players in Washington, D.C., are focused. The truth be told, if the idea caught the attention of the socialists in Denver, that wouldn’t bother […]
Simplistic? It sure is. So was that day and time. I know many on those on the left like to throw around the idea conservatives want to go back to the good old days of the 1950s and 1960s. In a way, they’re absolutely correct. At least when it comes to me. I’ll admit it […]