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Image via Pexels ~ It starts with a calendar ping, a burst of Wi-Fi, and a couch that creaks just enough to feel real. Home swapping is more than just skipping hotel bills — it’s how digital nomads are learning to live instead of just land. Travelers used to hopContinue Reading

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Image via Freepik ~ There’s something timeless about sweeping someone off their feet, especially when it’s done with subtlety, thoughtfulness, and a boarding pass. Planning a surprise trip for your significant other is no small feat—it’s part spy mission, part love letter, and part logistics marathon. But if you’re goingContinue Reading

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Acts of kindness. Simple phrase, yes? Putting it mildly, I sometimes wonder if the meaning, not the words, ever occurs to many in our present contemporary life. You know, as an inherent human consciousness that we know we all possess. It’s called, Empathy, Love and Morality. Those things seem toContinue Reading

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Jaelle Terrell The Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is a blow. It is a setback. MSNBC reported that this decision “made millions of Americans poorer. Remember the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” It’s not aContinue Reading

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It was about 7:00 on a Friday, and the light rain stopped as dusk began to settle in.  He was still wearing his red Lowe’s vest as he drove down the divided road.  He admired the big stone church on his right. “St. John and Paul.” “I’ve never been inContinue Reading

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This was it. The moment Jim was dreading. What was he going to do? And what was wrong with him anyway. He was in junior high school. Today you call it middle school. It was October 1967 and the eighth grade had started about a month ago. Parma Valley JuniorContinue Reading

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Despite my daughter constantly telling me that I’m not old, (and that my articles are too damn long) I have been on this earth for a lot of cycles around the sun. I remember when the news meant Walter Cronkite (the Most Trusted Man in America). I remember the chaosContinue Reading

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I ’ve been a critic of President Obama and Eric Holder’s decision to ultimately not prosecute any of the major (or even minor) perpetrators involved in the 2007 housing crash ever since I started this website a couple of years after the actual 2007 Housing Crash. In fact, it wasContinue Reading

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Long before his Royal Trumpness had the balls to make it his actual campaign slogan, the Republican Party was promising to Make America Great Again. Usually couched in the imaginary language of “tradition,” Republican leaders have long celebrated the fabricated idea of an American golden era, circa 1945 to 1958,Continue Reading

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Underneath the hyper-partisanship currently infecting the United States, is there a deeper, fundamental lack of morality in its economics and politics? Is it something new or has it been glossed over since our separation from England? There is, of course, our obsession with winning, which is on blatant display ifContinue Reading