Apr 23, 2018
On Dreams
The new Hotshot at work in Grants, NM - “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” --Anais Nin. - On a Tuesday evening two...
Apr 9, 2018
April Fool
Photo by Trudy Snope Fool that I am, I’d do it all over again. - "Mercenary Territory" (George, Hayward), performed by Little Feat -...
Mar 25, 2018
Hope Bowl
Bowling is life at its most immediate – you fling a ball and the pins fall down, sometimes. And I also wanted to show Sam that the holy...
Mar 11, 2018
Left to His Own Devices
In our time, the technology of interruption has outpaced the technology of concentration.” David Coleman, President of the College Board...
Feb 25, 2018
Accidental and Necessary Limitations
Snowfall along Fish Creek Falls Trail, Steamboat Springs, Co. - "Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of...
Feb 11, 2018
Singing The Alphabet Song
The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. Thus the Phoenician alphabet is...
Jan 27, 2018
In Praise of Wikipedia
When he [Ward Cunningham] was on his honeymoon in Hawaii thirteen years earlier, he remembered, “the airport counter agent directed me to...
Jan 15, 2018
Skiing in a Circle
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” - Winston...
Jan 1, 2018
Laughing and Carrying On
The Pelican - a symbol of charity and generosity. Photo by Trudy Snope - We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we...
Dec 16, 2017
the 3 letters of joy
“Ocian in view! O! the joy” – William Clark on seeing the Pacific Ocean on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (November 7, 1805) - If one is...
