“Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” – Sam Elliott as The Stranger in “The Big Lebowski.” Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, the written word can make all the difference. Yet sometimes, no matter…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So on the eve of my trip to San Francisco to meet some of the human bots whose technology controls so much of our lives now, I awoke at 5 a.m. with an existential question that has been hounding my thoughts of…
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” – Don Quixote Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Mark Twain was already on my mind Tuesday morning when the news came across the email wire that one of our great science writers died. In the account of…
It Could Cost the Republicans in the Midterms – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – It’s beginning to look a lot like a sad Christmas indeed, especially for Democrats with SNAP benefits and Obamacare and Republicans who want to get reelected next year. Grinch in chief Donald Trump and his…
You said a road trip would do us some good Despite every instinct I said that I would It’s been six years since you put on that ring Maybe the road will fix everything When all that remains is the gas in the tank The tread on the tires and what’s left in the bank…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As international travel and tourism has dropped significantly in the United States over the past year due to Trump administration trade and other unpopular policies, the administration just announced a major hike in fees for foreign travelers at America’s most visited National Parks that could cause another economic…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – These in many ways are dark days that try people’s very souls, when celebrating traditional holidays seems almost pointless and quaint. Many Americans will go through the motions this week of traveling to visit relatives and consuming traditional meals of turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce and…
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About It – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In a world battered by one instantaneous crisis after another, where attention spans are cut short from years of propaganda spread on phones and every other medium of communication by so-called social media, what…
Title: Winnie-the-Pooh Author: A. A. Milne Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard Release date: January 3, 2022 [eBook #67098] Most recently updated: December 31, 2024 Language: English Original publication: Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd, 1926 Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan, Iona Vaughan, David T. Jones and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net EBook of Winnie-the-Pooh,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As more than half the people in America continue to watch in shock and horror on 24-hour cable television news and the web as the mad king dictator-in-chief dismantles the White House East Wing for a gold-laced ballroom and unravels democracy as we know…
Guest Column – By U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – Starting today, Donald Trump and Republicans planned to intentionally withhold food and nutrition assistance (SNAP benefits) from over 42 million Americans, including 16 million children. In Maryland, that translates into 680,000 people, including nearly 270,000 children, 120,000 seniors, and 130,000 individuals with disabilities.…
Guest Column – By James Rhodes – Special to the New American Journal – When I was discharged after my tour of combat in Vietnam in November, 1969, I did not realize then I was literally “walking dead.” I had a tumor a year for 21 years – none of which have ever been treated…
“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” – Luke 8:17 – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – I’ve been singing a song by The Animals my whole life. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.” For…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If I was on the radio, I’m not yet, I might play a song this morning by Waylon Jennings, “It’s The World’s Gone Crazy.” If I was still covering daily news and politics in Washington, D.C., I’m not, this is the news for today.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The most awesome scene in nature and American national parks, at least in my traveling experience, is still Bear Tooth Pass into Yellowstone from the Northeast. For sheer jaw dropping wow, give me the snow capped Rocky Mountains over azure blue lakes, clear as…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – Never in my wildest dreams of making the move nearly 3,000 miles across the country to the Golden State of California did I imagine landing in the nicest small town in America. But due to preparation, opportunity, timing, good friends and little luck, it’s…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – The Trump administration embraced the government shutdown on Wednesday and a senior White House official said there are no plans to negotiate with Democratic leadership in the House and Senate to get it back open again. “We’re going to extract maximum pain,” said the official, speaking anonymously to…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – It’s been the dream trip of a lifetime. Making it was never guaranteed, like all those souls who set out by horse and wagon to go west in the 19th century after President Thomas Jefferson negotiated a treaty with France in 1803…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Co. – So I crossed another river today, the Colorado River, about a dozen times along the MoJo Road. Discovered and camped by the headwaters in the national park. After seeing it for myself, it’s difficult to imagine anyone crossing the…
