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…
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” – Since 1865, that’s been the country’s promise, and the motto of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. By Glynn Wilson – DENVER, Co. – About 60 percent of U.S. military veterans say they supported Donald Trump for president in 2024. But many now say…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WILSON LAKE, Ka. – It seems I’ve found the center of the country. It’s a salt water lake in central Kansas where you would not expect to see sea gulls. Yet they are here. After a good night’s sleep by the lake, with no broadcast noise pollution…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – TOPEKA, Ks. – Oh, to have the patience of the great white egret I can see fishing outside the media camper van window as I sip the morning coffee, read the New York Times and post on Facebook. It stealthily moves along the bank of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Five years ago, hunkered down for the winter north of Pensacola, Florida in Donald Trump’s mostly disastrous first term as president and keeping up with the news as Covid-19 spread over the world and across the United States, I embarked on a special research…
“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ST. LOUIS, Mo. – As a writer and traveler it’s near impossible to cross over the Mississippi River without thinking of Mark Twain, and back…
By Glynn Wilson – ST. LOUIS, Mo. – When pulling up the canopy stakes in the Washington, D.C. metro area on Monday worried about the militarized occupation in the nation’s capital and heading across the Midwest as fast as possible to a political meeting here Wednesday night, nothing really prepared me for the scene where…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Like Honest Abe and Honest George, I can’t lie. I’ve moved around and seen a lot in my life, but I’ve long planned to make my final move to the West Coast. Call it my own personal manifest destiny, or simply riding off into…
Greenbelt National Park and Washington, D.C. – A Decade of Experience, With Photographs – EDITOR’S NOTE – This essay with links was developed to guide an interpretive ranger talk delivered on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 at 4 p.m. outside the Greenbelt National Park Ranger Station. It was not designed as a public program, but a…
By Ronald Sitton – Trumann Observer – BROOKLAND, Ark. — When Alan Brown got into farming his wife’s family’s land in Trumann four years ago after leaving the Air Force, he couldn’t have foreseen the day when the money he’d earn wouldn’t cover the cost of putting the crops in the ground, let alone the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Something woke me up early on Labor Day 2025. I slept deep and well after an afternoon of fun at the Labor Day Fest in Greenbelt, Maryland, 10 miles due north of the White House and Capitol. I went out of my way to…
Have their differences been overstated? – EDITOR’S NOTE – The National Endowment for the Humanities, funded in a bipartisan way by Congress, is under threat from the Trump administration like many agencies, history and science itself. Back in April, when Elon Musk invaded the administration and created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), hackers with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Editor’s Note: Shakespeare had his prayers. Muir and Thoreau too. I don’t think Charles Darwin prayed much, or Edward Abbey for that matter. The man in the White House said he wants to get to heaven, while taking orders from the right hand of…
But you don’t have to watch or listen. Read the news in the morning, then go for a hike – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have been just another ho-hum day on the job for Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. Board…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – You never know when the day will come when the final piece of a big picture puzzle will show up, bringing higher knowledge into focus and taking you over a plateau in your thinking. Like a guitar player or pianist who studies and practices…
The move would endanger the health of workers and military personnel – By Cristina Johnson and Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the administration of President Joe Biden had moved to finally ban all use of the deadly carcinogen asbestos in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is reconsidering…
