There is music for every season and occasion. When listening to music one conjures up visions that, to them, relate to the melodic vibrations they are enjoying.  The Christmas season is my favorite time of special music. Finally we are getting some cooler and wetter weather that is appropriate and helps build the atmosphere for […]

“Great Expectations” is a classic literary achievement written by Charles Dickens. Today in the political arena we are experiencing our own variety of great expectations that might be better titled “Great Anticipation.” It has been three weeks since our national election where the hopes, dreams and expectations of many Americans were demonstrated at the voting […]

Our world is alive. All things that live continually grow in some manner from the lowest single cell mass to the most evolved, highly intelligent being.  So it is even with the typical family.  In the thirties my mother and father united and a family began to grow or emerge.  My own family growth started […]

ROY G BIV was the easy way I was taught the color spectrum of light. I remember when looking upward at a rainbow I would diligently try to pick the lines of these different colors.  After the storm clouds vanished we would spot the rainbow that gave us reinforcement of the promise for prevailing calm […]

In case you haven’t heard, the election is over. Mr. Trump and the Republican Party won.  It’s time to stop the temper tantrums, the name calling and untruthful rhetoric being spewed.  This country has an election for President every four years.  Sometimes the party or individual I support wins, other times they don’t.  We need […]

Mr. Obama, the legacy you have referred to so many times recently, is not glowing quiet as brightly as you had dreamed it would be. I want to personally thank you for the contributions you made to ensure that Hillary would go down in defeat.  In the end, this may become your single greatest part […]

Last Friday night I attended a high school football playoff game. It has been a very exciting football season.  Our school has only existed six years and has experienced must success both on and off the football field.  For six consecutive years we have been solidly beaten by the once only high school in Madison, […]

As a young person, like many others, I was obsessed many times. Maybe I still am.  I was often obsessed with the idea I had to have that particular new toy.  I probably didn’t get it.  Oh yes, more than once I was obsessed about some extraordinary girl in school.  We all have experienced obsessions […]