The Price of Doing Nothing
We are living in a climate emergency, one of our own making. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when the use of coal in energy production and manufacturing took […]
Social Action
The Road Well Traveled, Part I
This is the first entry in a series of posts that will discuss some of our vacations over the last few years. How those travels have personally shaped my views […]
Blood in The Halls
Another day in the United States. Seventeen more dead people in a school, the victims of senseless gun violence. I tire of the endless slaughter. I tire of American’s looking the […]
2017, Moonshots and Snowflakes
It’s Christmas, 2017. Since last Christmas we, as a nation, have been through and seen a lot. While not getting into specifics, I did not expect in my lifetime to […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part III — Totality
It has been five days now, just over 120 hours, since Totality slid across the United States of America. Since a Total Solar Eclipse travelled coast to coast from Oregon […]
We Are Who We Are
This last weekend, the United States put on a horror show display of intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia. White Supremacists and Nationalists protested, and when counter protesters started turning out, things […]
Fire and Fury, Silence and Peace
There are days when you just can’t get over the headlines. When you can’t ignore them, can’t look away. Can’t wash them out with a video of cute baby animals, […]
Back to School, For a Lifetime
Late last winter I started looking at opportunities to use the tuition assistance that the Air Guard provides. Despite some less than stellar undergrad transcripts, I applied to a couple […]
We Need a Moonshot
I was born just a few months after the return of the last human crewed Earth mission to the Moon. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, it’s lunar module […]
Freedom and The Press
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom or speech, or of the press; or the right of […]