A house divided against itself cannot stand. We cannot continue on this path. It is almost impossible to read anything written by anyone and take it at face value. Everything is agenda driven. I am a reasonable person. I love listening to views that differ with mine. What I don't like is listening to the…
Bridges When you burn every bridge that you ever come to It makes it hard to ever come back Your manic way of dealing with life Had everyone questioning why Why are you here and why did you go And why cant you be like us now With everything that you had to give up…
Chasm
Now that it's fashionable again to bash the president I suppose it is appropriate to look at the elephant in the room, no pun intended. There is a mandate to erase everything that Obama has done. It will happen or in two years there will be retribution. If you would step into my Wayback machine…
What I have learned from the 2016 Presidential Election.
I wrote this maybe a month before the election and with a week and a half to go I was as certain as ever. It is a very odd thing to me that a candidate with the campaign slogan " stronger together ", is part of a machine that loves to devide people into groups…
Heavy Horses
Nothing is quite as exhilarating as rolling down the highway on two wheels. It changes the whole process of traveling. It is less about getting where you are going and more about the ride itself. On two wheels you become part of your surroundings. You see things you would not normally see and…
Corruption
I wrote this a few months ago and here we are a week and a half away from choosing who will guide us through a very difficult time in our history. There is no way that the director of the FBI would pull the scab off a festering wound unless there was no other way.…
Heavens Gate
Dread. And despair. Is it even possible to say despair without thinking" Agony On Me"? Not if you are my age. It's the way I feel and I can not shake it. I can not shake it. I could fill the page and it would not be enough. I can not shake it. There is…
Ritter Roots
Ritter Roots I have, for the longest time, wanted to put on record memories of my grandparents. So much has been lost with their passing, and they have all been gone so long. Who I am comes from each of them, and the older I am, the more my mind wonders, and after being away…
Reflections
I have never in my life, as far back as I can remember, been more at peace with myself and with the world than I am right now. Next month, I will be sixty and I do not know how sixty got here so fast. I thought it would take longer. I thought I…
Fifteen Years Later
Fifteen years ago, after dealing with a torn ACL for far too long, I had the surgery and was recovering. Early September, I decided to go back to work way too early, so still on crutches and on light duty at work. On the morning of the eleventh, I did what all telephone guys do:…
