Commentary

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti-Mother’s Day.

The Buddha taught that, contrary to appearances, the source of happiness lies within our own minds.

What does the study tell us: What do they tell us that we didn't know before? What's worth acting on? More than what it says about who we are, what do we want to be?

What started as an article suggesting the need for a change in the federal Impeachment process, has morphed into a look at how Americans ‘may’ be treated when they reach out to their federal elected officials. My first follow-up was with Sen. Patty Murray and now it’s on to the other Senator from Washington, Maria Cantwell.

In light of recent events in Jerusalem in the holy month of Ramadan, all of my social media platforms are full of posts, forwards, messages of prayers, mercy, condemns, sadness and anger.

Idaho in the ‘80s and ‘90s and into the early years of this century became an “end-of-the-road” destination, the northern, western state where all roads metaphorically end, collecting the wackaloons and nutcases — and worse — who were fleeing other parts of the country in search of religious fundamentalism and their version of racial purity.