Lessons from long-neck critters Whenever I click on a newspaper website, or switch on the TV news, I see someone cradling an AK47 or some si...

How many kids will die? From Shaman’s Rock By Jim Poling Sr. There are days this summer when my mind spins like a roulette wheel about to fl...

  A good friend who lived at the top of the hill behind my place passed away this summer. Her name was Fagus, a Latin name I believe.  I’m g...

Have the feeling that someone is listening and watching? I have that feeling more often these days. It’s more than a feeling. It has become ...

Mother Nature is no longer simply disappointed in us; she is blazing angry. Her anger is evident throughout the world this month. Killer mud...

An interesting anniversary passed virtually unnoticed last Sunday: the 204th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. Austen, in the two centurie...

You have to wonder whether the Neanderthals of 50,000 years ago lived better lives than we genius Homo Sapiens of the super tech 21st centur...