Dense fog obliterates the beginning of our day, surrounded by pavement and landscape with little snow to track where we have been or what we need to know. Without a true north to guide our direction, we are pulled further into this element of fear. Who do, or can, we hold dear. Winter now that […]

Their backs are strong, but don’t put the weight of a dying business on the shoulders of the elephants. Ringling Bros. announced this week that the show will no longer go on. The world-famous travelling act, almost 150 years old, will stop performing in May. Attendance at the circus has been dropping steadily for years, […]

A year ago, out of frustration over what and who was dominating the news, I wrote and posted this right here. Somehow I thought (or hoped, or dreamed) that we, as a society or global community, would come to our senses. The situation has not changed, and neither has my hope that it will. In […]