With the advent of Internet digital technology, mp4. videos are now easily made by anyone, lasting a few minutes ordinarily; but potentially lasting up to three hours or longer. …

My mother, who worked as a legal secretary for most of her single adult life (13 years), would sometimes remark upon the circumstances of Indian tribal members who owned property along the Columbia River. We were on our way to Astoria, Oregon, where my sister now lived. She was a…

Fifty years ago I was 18 years old, a callow and naïve young man who knew nothing about life. Of course now I’ve got the re-cogntion of hindsight. And even now I still have to remain vigilant, just like every one else. …

Suppose for a brief period of time that we can suspend within our own thinking that a single occurrence of the universe over hundreds of thousands of billions of years is an inevitability. As I understand it, the entropic theory of the universe’s eventual “heat death” owes to some particular…

18 Long before November 3rd, they had both agreed separately that none of us could have stepped back out of our Movement to eliminate Trump and Republican senators and representatives from the results of the upcoming November election. …

14 Kendrick had yet to understand the politics in opposition to his vision. There was a sizeable faction within the oil industry who would never see themselves as merchants of hydrogen. Texas wildcat oilmen, driven, independent men, saw any research and development toward the enhancement of the hydrogen industry as…

So, I begin this conversation with the fact that I first came across a paperback written by Cormac McCarthy at Dalton Books, in the big mall right outside of Pocatello, in its sister city of Chubbuck. All The Pretty Horses was the novel I happened to see; and, ah, I…

Dear Mr. Senator Manchin, First let me state that I am a Democrat, and I have donated nominal amounts of money to the Demcratic Party, of which you, I would say now, are merely a nominal member. You and I are roughly the same age. But whereas you have apparently…

My first impulse, if carried out, would help to produce a structure for this intended book. Each day, at least once, I would sit long enough at this table to describe in succinct yet cogent detail precisely what sort of mood I am in at, say, four forty-five in the…