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You start to notice the beauty even before you get there. As you head west from Las Vegas, you have to cross the Spring Mountains. The day my wife and I set out, it was clear and bright. But as we approached the mountains, we could see dark, brooding clouds overhead. We were concerned that rain

This is the time of year when journalists and writers look back and tell us what they thought was the best and worst of everything. I’ve tried to make this space about the four things that I feel are important issues, and can be viewed as a common denominator for many of us. Journalism, politics, language,

It’s coming. In the middle of our preparation for Christmas and ringing in the new year, it starts to cast its long, dark shadow. Many of us are distracted by the colorful lights, wrapping gifts, going to see Santa, the aroma of Christmas cookies, hoping all the relatives get along that we don’t see it

On “60 Minutes” this week Scott Pelley interviewed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his relationship with Donald Trump, and what he hopes to accomplished now that Republicans control the government. Ryan initially refused to endorse Trump during the campaign, and said he wouldn’t campaign with or for him. His most damning condemnation of Trump

It is not what you would expect to see in an upper middle class neighborhood of large homes with well manicured lawns. As I was driving home the other day, I saw a woman laying on the side of the road on top of a black bag, unconscious. She was on the edge of a

Twenty nine years ago this month the movie “Three Men and a Baby” starring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenburg came out. It was the story of three bachelors forced to take care of a baby girl after one of their girlfriends left the child at their front door. One of them had become

Albert Einstein was the world’s genius. He discovered the theory of relativity, E=mc2. It changed the way we look at the universe. Its impact can’t be overstated. He was the Man of the Century.  He was an icon. Everyone recognized the wild gray hair and mustache. He came to the United States in 1933 as

There are not many places you can go where you can put your complete trust in total strangers to the point of being completely vulnerable. One such place is a place no one wants to visit. Of course, I’m talking about a hospital. I recently had to go in for an out patient procedure. It’s

Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse. It did. Supporters of Donald Trump, including disillusioned voters, as well as, Republican party leaders, could tolerate the verbal abuse of women, but new revelations of actual alleged sexual assault is apparently too much. Trump calling women “pigs” and “slobs”, and even the audio tape from 11

It began in the early morning hours of April 6, 2002 when the phone woke me shortly after one o’clock. It was my mother. She said, “I’m at the hospital. Your father died.” What I didn’t realize at that moment was that it was the beginning of my mother’s years of a long time dying.