Smoke Signals

It was much darker than this picture suggests, but this was the scene looking east on our street at approximately 9:30 on the morning of Friday, August 10th of this year. The ordinarily summer morning sun was hidden by a thick cloud of smoke over the entire region...

Good Words

For a long time I have been fascinated by the power of well-used words to convey important truths, meaning, and emotion.  The ability to communicate by the use of sounds or written symbols is a special gift, the extension of the human spirit.  Though communication...