Dear Friends, Next week, I travel to France to being a walk from the coast of Normandy to Paris for the U.N. Climate Summit. This will be my third long Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, Before I tell you the most important take-aways from Saturday’s JJ Dinner, I’ve gotta share three moments of personal interest: – I attended the JJ as Press, which Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, I am so proud of all the landowners standing strong against the Bakken pipeline. (See the article in today’s Cedar Rapids Gazette.) Their position is not an easy Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, The personal story I’m about to share is not exactly a struggle against the abuse of eminent domain. But it’s an urban parallel that should deepen city dwellers Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, I love the richness of our descriptors for gatherings of various life forms. A few of my favorites: – A pride of lions – A murder of crows Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, {WATCH THE FIVE-MINUTE VIDEO PRODUCED BY SHARI HRDINA THAT GIVES ME SUCH HOPE!} Democracy in America is not dead. But it is seriously ill, and most of us Continue Reading →

Dear Friends, The propensity of humans to pretend all is well when it’s not is hardly new. Look back 2,600 years, when Jeremiah warned Israel of impending doom at the Continue Reading →