In 1863, President Lincoln wrote:“I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those...

This yearly post normally happens in June. I take a bunch of the best photos of Ritter, my service dog,...

It happened last October that the wife and I were coming back from the beach and got to talking......

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space....

Nothing was real and perception wasn’t reality. ...

Perhaps we are too worried about what others think or because we lack identity derived from something deep within our...

This year he's already traveled around 10,000 miles with me, including a cross country trip to Oregon and back. I'd...

“Entropy is a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives. You can think of it as nature’s...

Life oscillates between obscurity and celebrity, but true fulfillment emerges from struggle rather than comfort and wealth, driving us towards...

Often times we try to fix one thing in our life, and get focused on it. At all other costs,...

I used to search like this in Afghanistan, every metallic hit could be something I did NOT want to find....

If you live expecting difficulty, you won't be surprised when you encounter it. ...

I feel this burden of “journalistic integrity” when I write for Mental Grenade. It’s kind of insane really. I have...

Fish stories, life and family, world travel and tragedy, the conversations wax and wane mixed with periods of quiet. The...

Stop letting people manipulate how you feel. Very few people EVER tell the truth, much less the whole truth, and...