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Yesterday, we were again faced with another senseless killing of innocent people. Even worse, nineteen of those killed were children. This tragedy again opens the dialogue of "What do we do to stop this?" Sadly, this is a cycle often repeated, but then the conversation fades as time passes until the same thing happens again. I am willing to compromise my positions and possibly … [Read more...] about Another School Shooting. Enough is Enough

Famed Kentucky author and humorist Irvin Cobb once famously said of the Kentucky Derby, "Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere, and you ain't seen nothin'!" Until you indeed have witnessed the pageantry firsthand, you'll have no idea just how right he was. I moved to New Albany, Indiana, in 1985, which is a part of … [Read more...] about My First Kentucky Derby; A Man Without a Clue

As a writer, or at least someone working on becoming a writer, I feel it is vital to be open and honest about who you are. Sometimes that openness may reflect positively, sometimes negatively, but it needs to be the real deal. This is me trying to do just that. I hear the same thing from men all the time. They don't fit the mold society often expects from its male occupants. … [Read more...] about Forfeiting My Man Card

You'd be hard-pressed to find a father and a son who were any more different than my Dad and me. I worshipped the ground he walked on when I was a youngster, then we grew to have different views of some things, and we let those differences get in the way of the closeness I think we both would have enjoyed. No doubt, we loved each other, and when he needed me near the end, I … [Read more...] about Getting to Know My Dad After He’s Gone

Too often, self-inflicted loss of life hits close to home. Just this year, several hit very close to my family. One of my oldest friends lost her 30-something son. I sat in the funeral home with his grandfather crying uncontrollably with little I could say to help. A high school classmate lost their husband to suicide. A relative lost his son, for whom he had done everything to … [Read more...] about Suicide; There’s Hope. Learn to Help Yourself and Others