Mouth of the West

Small kindnesses CAN make a difference.  I offer these brief stories, not to suggest that I'm somehow "holier than thou," but...

The week of July 3 - 9 Posts During the Week: Profound & Prolonged Sadness (July 4, 2022) A Work in Progress? (July 4, 2022) Incidenta...

 As once promised , I'm listing the working titles of drafts in progress.  Do any of them pique your interest?  If so, let me know, and ...

This is a glimpse into my twenty-months-long saga of sadness . Mind you, it’s not depression; I know the difference. It began rather inausp...

This 'Bama-borne Boy has lived in the Deep South, Upper Midwest, Northeast, Southwest, Aleutian Islands, and Intermountain West during h...

The week of November 22-28 Death has touched our family twice.  I won't reveal anything about the first instance, which was actually VER...

Phase 1 -- Week 1 (ending Sat., Aug. 22):   I'll share a link to each new blog post on both (a) my personal Facebook profile and (b) the...

My original plan for the "Eye of Mike" group on Facebook was to merely post the permalink to a weekly "table of contents...

My second week back home, after an all-too-brief visit with Ben, Lindsey, granddaughter Zoe, and grandson Quinn.  The story about that trip ...

About a decade ago, I thought I’d turned my back on the so-called ‘social’ media.  I posted my last ‘tweet’ on Twitter, then archived my “Th...