Last Sunday morning when I was still smarting from the election results with thoughts flashing through my head about things not being able to get any worse, I got jolted back to reality with more sobering news. When I read in my social media news feed that entertainer Leon Russell had died in his sleep,…
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Processing the results: Arriving at my fork in the road
As of 1:45 AM CST this past Wednesday morning all members of the Democratic majority throughout the nation and along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 who care passionately about their country and its future have been working through the five stages of grief after Tuesday’s historically cataclysmic electoral loss. I, like…
Continue ReadingMy take on the outcome of the 2016 General Election
As an Oklahoma Democrat, this is how I view the results of the 2016 General Election in my mind’s eye: I need to update the page on this blog to reflect yet another Presidential election where 77 out of 77 counties in Oklahoma were carried by the Republican ticket. Believe it or…
Continue ReadingThe American dichotomy, up close and personal
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, this has been another of those weeks where I have stopped myself more than once from writing my commentary in an effort to allow a story to fully evolve. The fact of the matter is that this is a very trying time to…
Continue ReadingCelebrating twenty years of Internet access
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Continue Reading2015 year in review
As the hours tick by in anticipation of celebrating the New Year, I wax philosophical about the year gone by. I am thankful to be alive having survived the year and the daily hazards of an increasingly more dangerous World. I am also thankful for my association with those individuals and organizations that make my…
Continue ReadingMy human experience, Volume 41
As year’s end approaches this week it is time to reflect on not only this year which will soon be gone but all others in which we have lived and experienced being human. My final entry in my 2015 CE personal journal will be made on New Year’s Eve and will mark the end of Volume 41…
Continue ReadingLooking back on a watershed moment
What did you do in your youth? How did you spend your young adult years? When did you know you were finally a grown-up? What changed in you to validate the fact you were over that big hump, never to return to being a child? Three and a half decades ago this evening I confronted…
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