I spent most of the day yesterday watching the Inaugural festivities and the swearing in of President Donald Trump. I started in the morning before the arrival of President Biden and the (soon to not be)

I earned another weekly posting badge from Hivebuzz yesterday which if you know me and how busy I am, you'll appreciate the effort involved in making time to do so. Stringing these together week after

Today we've finally seen the first significant snowfall of this much-delayed winter season. This one is projected to be somewhere between 3-8 inches, which means it'll actually stick to the ground, as

Monday is Inauguration Day, the day we change Presidents. Man it arrived quickly! It seems like only yesterday that I was watching the news out of Butler, PA with horror, concerned for the future of my

Early on in my blogging career, years before Steemit, I was in my "shakedown cruise" stage as a blogger. This is where I'd come home after work and plop down in front of my old Compaq computer

Those of us who are long-term builders, are here to create content which will live on the blockchain and help this platform grow. We're not here to collect some fast tokens and then dip out at the next

Had a scary day at the failing Indian-run store in the area. You know, the one I blogged about where they don't listen to their customers and stock products that nobody wants? Where the last Indian owners

I was browsing around Hive more recently looking for content to consume. The hunt for good blog posts caused me to ponder what made a great post stand out from the others. It dawned on me that I tended

In 1964, campus Free Speech Movement activist Jack Weinberg coined the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30" during a combative interview with a newspaper reporter. This was during an time when

I've had some weird and spooky things happen to me throughout my life, that I think stems from our beliefs in not denying the power of God and that of his adversaries. I've shared how the house that my

If there's one thing I've been blessed with, it's good health. It shouldn't be the case considering the nonsense sold here in the US including the "bio-engineered" cookies I was eating before

In the city it's hard to see the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy, our interstellar home. I can pick out the North Star and a few others, but the rest are faded by the glare of lights in the night sky. I

We read about them all the time. How regular people experience the cornucopia of sudden wealth and riches, and how this 'found money' alters the structure and essence of who they both were and are. I first

I don't set out with a post size in mind, I just write. Usually the subject matter itself, will decide the post length naturally, and will wrap up itself to a natural conclusion. Take this one for example,

Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland today, no doubt to "look over" what he (and his father) view as a potential future American territory. The son of President-elect Trump was allegedly making

I had a friendly (and very popular) whale take a look at my Hive account to see if it would pass muster to receive upvotes from his bot. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that my content wasn't the issue,

"First they came for the Hive Witnesses, and I did not speak out because I was not a Hive Witness." That famous quote from the poem First They Came by Martin Niemöller, takes me back to the early

It's important to have goals as a way of challenging us and pushing that rock of progress forward, bit by bit. My latest is to make an attempt for the 'Hive Power Up Month Challenge' for January. Even

We've all heard of the old phrase: "nice guys finish last" however, yesterday I had an opportunity to put a lie to that old saying and help score a win for a very good guy. Let me paint you a

Normally when we "round the horn" and steer into a new year, there's a feeling of nostalgia for the year just past. Sort of like summiting a mountain as a divide between the old and the new with