Failing Up

Road rage is old news, it is even expected and accepted as just another common occurrence while driving.     The new rage is shopping cart rage!  Inside the grocery store it is everyone for themselve…

Football and television came of age together. Some may say the 1950's were the golden age of television, but in fact it was the 1960's.  It was the  televised 1958 NFL championship game between the B…

Not mighty armies, or dictators will rule the world.  The power and control goes to the few who pull the strings of (AI).  We in the so called developed countries have been conditioned for years to b…

We Humans are so smart, just look at all the advancements we make each year with technology, and energy to improve many aspects of our daily lives.  Yet, we Homo Sapiens, Latin for wise human are not…

The F word is one of the few words in the English language that is identified by just the letter.  This word at one time was considered so vulgar that it was not uttered in public.
Yet, now it is a pa…

As summer comes to a close I am always reminded of Wilbur the pig in the E.B White classic Charlotte's Web.  Wilber who is save by Charlotte at the county fair.

Every year throughout the summer most …

Television commercials are a creative endeavor, and a times a great form of entertainment . Hell, some people just watch the Superbowl for the commercials.  They have made many for their characters h…

In the 1960's the message was that if you trusted institutions and leaders without question, you would get hurt, or killed.  Well, that lesson has been proved to be true and also forgotten.  In 1974 …

If we have a temperature that reaches over 105 f , well we are considered sick.  This summer Mother Earth has a fever well over 100 f, and  yes she is sick, and we are the cause.  The dinosaurs had a…

No where is the behavior of the human's more on display then when they are locked in a tube 30,000 feet above the ground.  From the jockeying  at the gate where adults forget how to wait in line, to …

Every Year there is a the summer ritual of watering the grass so it grows and does not burn, even fertilize it so it grows quicker.  This along with the late spring ritual of telling the world how ma…

The cover girl on Sport Illustrated is 81 year old Martha Stewart, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards are 79, Bruce Springsteen is 73, and the incumbent President and the most likely  challenger are 80 and …

Mediation and relaxation exercises cause me stress.  It is not natural for me to slow my breathing and focus on it. Breathing is supposed to be natural and the only time I imagine it slows down and I…

The cause of road rage is not really a mystical secret.  It is simply that people do not want to share!  Share their toys, or share the road.  It then carries over into many other areas, shopping car…

As we approach this election cycle and candidates have declared they are running, age has become an issue. The two most likely nominees for each party are four years apart in age. Late 70's and early…

Back in the 1970's when I was in my impressionable teens, the pickup truck was used by those as part of their profession.  They had tool boxes, dirty beds, a cab for two and sometimes people riding i…

With the one day purging of two prominent cable television personalities  from networks that are on the opposite side of the news spectrum; I feel a small glimmer of hope that news will become the st…

Instead of looking to "leaders" with self serving agendas, where the boundaries of lies and truth have been torn down, where certain media promote lies for profit, it is the voices of our youth that …

CNN continues to struggle with their morning Diva, Don Lemon.  No matter the story Don makes the news about him.  His charm barley masks his frustration with the fact that he must share the spotlight…

The phase "All Politics is Local" is attributed to the former Speaker of the House, the late Tip O'Neill.  To go along with that concept, all change is local.  Looking for others to invoke change is …