Zooming southbound on Pyramid Highway at noon-time, I heard the first subtle strains of the National Anthem come through my truck’s radio. Initially, it surprised me as I was certain I had music station Easy 104.1 (KEUZ, Fallon, Nevada) blasting away and not some sports broadcast. The sound also left me confused momentarily about what…

Thirty-five stories and she had to trudge her way to the top. It was something she didn’t want to do, but had to do. Carla was on a mission. She had to try out her new wings. She stood before her reflection in the glass door. They were light, delicate and very nearly invisible. Carla…

We live in a state of constant noise. Human activity – vehicles, heavy machinery, airplanes, and electronic devices. The natural world – birds, wind, thunder and insects. Rarely, do we experience actual quiet. When we do, we’re compelled to fill it with sound – any sound – as quietness feels awkward in our hustle and…

“A meowing cat catches no mice,” goes the Yiddish proverb. Some days I spend more time talking about what I’d like to do than doing anything at all. Perhaps it’s my need for reassurance that I do this. Maybe we’re looking for a bit of advice to shore up our desires. But then, you might…

Following a spate of deaths in my life, it felt good to do something creative and refreshing. Creative because I took my camera with me; refreshing because I’d have the chance to see newly born animals. To that end I visited the nearby Andelin Family Farm in Spanish Springs, Nevada as they held one of…

Advice is free and because of that, it’s usually cheap and in great abundance. The world is full of people with great ideas on how to improve other’s lives and circumstances. Your ideas can be some good ones, the problem is that not everybody is in a position to listen to them or act upon…

There’s no ‘spiritual happiness’ in stuff.  Of course, before learning this, we must first know what spiritual happiness is and what it means to us personally. What’s hard about this is spiritual happiness has a different meaning to each of us. You may find spiritual happiness in walking along a beach or attending a house…

Sometimes there is simply no relief from the pain of life – or more to the point – death. Tuesday night as we lay in bed, me trying to fall asleep, my wife was on her device when she learned that our friend and former next-door neighbor had passed away earlier in the day. We…

“Ah, geez. Make it stop!” I wrote to my friend, Elizabeth Rose after she messaged me about Tim’s passing. She responded, “I know, my friend.” Number eight for 2018, but whose counting. Me. After trying to write this for a while I realized that I’ve nearly come up short on words as they’re sounding the…

UPDATE: R. Lee Ermey will be laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. January 18, 2019. He had the roughest exterior in nearly every show or movies he ever did, but inside, R. Lee Ermey was a gentle soul. That’s the best way I can describe the man and it hurt’s…