In 71 years, I have had the good fortune to see and experience many things. Some of them were beautiful, wonderous, and beyond my ability to properly describe them. Like this adventure to Mount Kilimanjaro. Others were horrifying, very sad, and equally difficult to convey. …

Planet Earth is all we’ve got, or ever will have? A two-part Essay — Part One — Interstellar Travel The human species has accomplished some amazing things. In the realm of technology, we have done far more than any other creature alive today or in the past. Some human accomplishments are really quite stupendous. Among these, traveling to the moon and returning safely to…

Somewhere around the late 1960s I started to develop my thinking about the impact of humanity on the planet. Over the 50+ years since then my thinking has evolved. I have no special education in ecology. Even so, I have developed my own ideas about our planet and the impact…

Dear 2022 Self, This is your long-lost buddy, 2009 Self. It’s been a long time. I hope you are well. As you probably remember, I wrote an article with the title, “Is the Beginning of the Second American Civil War?” I wrote that article because the political dialog of the…

The memory of January 6th, 2021 is seared into my mind… as if recorded by a branding iron… it is indelible… and downright horrifying. Over the past year the images of that event have been shuttled to the back of my mind, perhaps as a way of suppressing and guarding…