Category Personal Essay
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I guess I’ve always wondered why God isn’t plain-spoken. I wasn’t around when Moses or Jesus walked the earth, and I have not been a witness to a burning bush… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] Being a car guy has always been in tension with my profession as an environmental engineer. It is difficult to resolve this internal conflict, and recently, I have given it… Continue Reading →
It was finally a beautiful day in March and I needed the warmth of the sun after a long winter of snow, rain and gloom. I ate my McDonald’s sandwich in the car facing the sun and watched people come… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] My father was an alcoholic from whom I learned many lessons. In some cases, they were lessons about what not to do or what not to be; the negative example… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] Some people come into and out of our lives making faint impressions. Others, we never know, yet so many of them contribute to our lives in ways we may give… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I have stopped worrying about trying to accumulate personal accomplishments. When I was young, I was an ass, driven to survive chaos and dysfunction. By the time I was a… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I am a father, grandfather, and officially a senior citizen. Yet even at this age, I still hold memories of my own father, who passed many years ago. When I… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] A pendulum can be soothing to watch as the rhythm of the back, and forth motion sets a resonate pace. And if it is accompanied by a ‘tick-tock’ from an… Continue Reading →
Last week I attended a rally, a protest of sorts, that came up suddenly in response to the firing of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and the appointment of a replacement out of the defined order of succession. This is… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] Charles Darwin taught us much about evolution. His voyages, research, and observations provided the basis for his conviction of the common origins of Man with other species and brought ‘natural… Continue Reading →