“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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Reading the Sunday New York Times is not what it used to be. Nothing is as good as it used to be. But on occasion, if you look closely enough, you will run into a cogent thought or two that puts things in context and allows you…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If it keeps on raining shit, the levee is going to break. By the levee I mean the world. By shit I mean the distortions, disinformation, misinformation and out right lies spouted on an hourly basis by Donald Trump and his minions of chaos…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – When the noise of the city becomes just too much to take, especially the political noise from blowhard politicians in Washington who have no idea what they are talking about, head for the mountains and find a babbling brook, a place…
BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE REPORT – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump is running an authoritarian regime and his threat to orchestrate a federal takeover of the nation’s capital city is as unconstitutional as much of what his administration is doing, according to the head of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Do you feel it now? Is the world changing fast enough for you to actually feel it? Are you reeling from it? I keep up with this stuff and I can honestly say yes, I am feeling it. Maybe you didn’t believe me (or…
