After a frustrating day of watching Republican ‘termites’ boring incessantly into the heart-wood of America, I amuse myself by chasing our country’s national symbol and asking if I can take their photograph.
It wasn’t too long ago that these amazing...
This is a very troubling story that will not leave you happy. I have to warn you, it is a little heartbreaking. It left me with a really bad taste in my mouth.
A few weeks ago in Montana, there...
On a cold Saturday afternoon in December, a group of 30 volunteers gathers in the lot of a large Denver park. Members of a greyhound rescue group, we are waiting for a "dog haul" from Oklahoma.
Right on schedule, a...
My point is that war does things to you and to some people it does something different. Tom and some others enjoyed it. He would have gone back again if they had not identified his mental health problem and treated him.
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left."
- Einstein
My morning yesterday was like so many others, riding a crowded train out from suburban Tokyo to neighboring Yokohama...
Is there a person who hasn’t visited a zoo, or watched a documentary, and said “Oh, How adorable, how cool, how awesome...I want one!
That would be me! I love giraffes, (and I’m 5’ tall -go figure!! :) ) I...
We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock"
Ferrets are more determined than they are bright. Case in point being my own pet ferret, Rosie....
Let us take it for given that the second amendment guarantees all Americans the right to bear arms...
Question: how many armless bears can the National Forest Service support, and can someone pass the BBQ sauce?
If political parties are to...
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
- Auden
St Francis of Assissi had, to be sure, an odd relationship with his body. As a strict ascetic, he...
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