Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

      Facebook has big problems. It is an existential crisis and it has spin off tentacles that reach to the very core of the US cultur...

3x3x3 Mother and child and mother to be and their reflections and their shadows     In the impossible task of absorbing the shock o...

disconnect      Someplace near the Cupertino and Mountain View exit signs an idea began to emerge. As I routed through what the world kno...

PIVOT!  silliness ahead, but first joy of the season     This lovely specimen is an Amaryllis and is generally known as a Christmas b...

    Sunrise was too pretty to ignore. My admiration of it woke up that corner of the brain where vexing thoughts are caged, waiting to ...

ONE AT A TIME      Harvest carnivals, autumnal rites and the turning of the year.        Merchants launch Christmas longings even be...

WE ARE SUFFERING SELF INFLICTED WOUNDS      It is as though we've crossed a "Rubicon" and now worry about the consequences....

A DISTURBING TREND CONTINUES      It is the sort of thing working journalists would debate, fret and talk about endlessly-the quality of ...

SHARE THE WEALTH WITH THOSE WHO MADE YOU As the world awaits the Facebook IPO, the experts are predicting the market value of the com...

BATTLE LINES IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD A chasm sized absence has been launched as a defensive weapon in a profound and historic battle today...