Wildlife
Dealing Successfully with Confrontation: Tips & Tools
There are a lot of angry people out there today.
“Hello Operator—Give me No. 9 . . .”
When Scottish immigrant Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1876, he could not have imagined he was setting the first domino in place for what would become a world obsession.
Truth in Nonfiction: The Imagined Past
Turns out there are differences between what the live and the dead remember. A problem with writing about someone else’s life after their death is that you can only “suppose” in that space between their lives and documented actions and what came next.
The Challenge: Embracing Change
Each fall I set aside time to consider how my life is going and whether or not I’ve veered away from how I want to live. I forge my goals for the coming months. One of those goals is always “embrace change.” Ha! Like saying it makes it happen.
An Open Space of My Own
Back when Pluto was a planet and the moon was made of cheese, I had a very early sense of myself as a Westerner. That is, as a person born and shaped by the American West.