Why I answered the call for veterans to go to Standing Rock
At Standing Rock, for the first time, I felt like I was finally serving the people.I lay among friends, huddled and cold in our...
Visiting the worst of 2016
No matter what county you reside in, Greene, Clarke, Darke, Montgomery, or any in between, my guess is you’ve spent some time ‘Nowhere Else...
How hate crime legislation fails men
You know why I despise the whole idea of hate crime legislation? Because it validates the repellant idea that some victims are more important,...
Ringing in the new year and filling in the gaps
Hebrews 10:24 “…and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is...
Explore who you really are
Do you spend much of your day being the person others expect? From our choice of jobs to the foods we eat, most of...
Gold-plated tractors for gentlemen farmers
Let’s talk tractors — the sturdy workhorses of agriculture.I’ve been around them since I was just a tyke — there’s even a Kodak snapshot...
No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes
While the world has been transfixed on the epic tragedy in Syria, another tragedy — a hidden one — has been consuming the children...
Our ever-changing language
It seems to me that our American version of English is very dynamic, that is, it keeps changing by adding new or modified words...
We need to keep up search for truth amid torrent of media bashing
I was right in July, but oh, so wrong in November.In July, I wrote an amazingly intelligent column explaining how Donald Trump, then dismissed...
Fakery is reality for our next president
Trump is threatening the voting rights of millions because of something he saw on Twitter.All hail Augusts Trumpus — the American Putin, whom none...