Last year week took a vacation out west to see Yellowstone, Rocky Mountains National Park, Grand Tetons National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, and Mount Rushmore. We flew into and out of Denver airport and rented a car for our long road trip. …

Standing Bear Brule Lakota Henry Standing Bear became one of the first Native Americans to attend Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. During school, Standing Bear felt the best way to help his people would be for him to learn about the white world. Standing Bear drew from this experience to build his…

Travel writing has always been my passion. I love to explore and have adventures in new places. Last summer my wife and I flew to Denver where we rented a car and began our journey. It was a long flight from Tennessee, but the scenery from the airplane window was…

My boy Ranger is a fearless and fiesty animal with a big heart and doesn’t take guff off anyone. He’s fought other family pets at time when he asserted his dominance. Sadly, today he is killing me. Ranger came into my life just over 15 years ago as a puppy…

Emergency crews are being held at hospitals — unable to respond to emergencies. Even before COVID, emergency medical services have been dealing with delays and diversion issues since the 1990s. Today, the problem has worsened. Ambulance crews are not only dealing with “diversion” status, where a hospital announces it is…

The forgotten parent? Not hardly. Men are men and women are women. We are entirely unique in our own right. We can see the differences in how we celebrate Father’s Day in Tri-Cities. Fathers in the Tri-Cities A quick search divulged hardly any mention of any celebratory events or mention of festivities related to…

Some companies have seen it coming, and made accommodations. They knew they’d need to position for the upcoming epidemic — just as they were positioning for hyperinflation associated with reckless spending in Washington. …

A COVID-19 Thanksgiving — Bah Humbug — Why should we be thankful this year? Thanksgiving — yeah, right. I don’t see it. This has to be the most depressing year I’ve witnessed in my greater than a half-century of existence. Alone. That is how many of us feel. We are alone in a world full of others…

Droves of COVID-weary families prepare to take flight — Basking in the limited sun afforded by autumn's arrival, a growing number of people plan their fate. Many of us have had it up to “here” with confinement. A detriment to our psyche is more than we need. We have grown tired of our confines. We are humans. We are…