Guns don’t kill people.  People kill people.  I remember hearing that phrase quite a bit over the last several decades. It’s almost like...

It’s happening all over.  In all of the states that I’ve visited in the past couple years, and undoubtedly nationwide.  When I first...

I work at a mental health urgent care facility as a Clinician.  I work with people who are not quite at the 5150 level where they’re a...

What I didn’t foresee following my recent trip to Spain, however, was my takeaway - what I would remember about my travels. 

It was early in the morning. I was on my way to get my morning coffee. In hindsight, probably a little irritable. As I prepared to...

I learned early on that many words in the English language can have double meanings. Sometimes it’s based around how you use the word,...

I happened to catch the tail end of the news the other day and caught a snippet about another one of our elected leaders, representative...

When I was a child I remember my father water skiing with one his best friends and fellow member of the Air Force. I don’t specifically...

Politics has always been a dirty game. A game played for the reward of money and power retention; typically lacking moral obligation. ...

Some people have been vaccinated and some people haven’t. Some people lined up as soon as the vaccine was made available, and some...

As a part of the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill that former President Trump signed into law in this past...

What flag would God wave? Would it represent everyone or just the believers? Would it be colorful or colorless? Would the flag...

I never heard much, if anything, about Juneteenth as a child. I definitely didn’t learn about it in school. I would’ve remembered that....

I caught the tail end of a documentary on PBS the other night about the Civil Rights movement, more specifically, the Freedom Riders. I...

I don’t recall a time when I’ve seen a police car without the phrase “protect and serve”, or something similar displayed on the side. I...

I went to high school in North Highlands, California, which is a suburb of Sacramento. It enveloped McCllelan Air Force Base, which was...

A few weeks back I went to have breakfast with a former foster youth that I used to work with. It would come to be one of the most...

I happened to turn the TV on the other night, and caught the tail end of a discussion about the proposed minimum wage hike to $15 an...

It started off as a typical day. I was out for one of my routine morning runs. As I rounded a corner, off in the distance I could see an...

Working with under resourced youth populations for over twenty years in both the public and non profit sectors, I’ve observed the...