Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The war for democracy is over. Trump’s authoritarianism won. So many Democrats were so worried about another Civil War that they refused to engage in the fight. Now what are the rest of us supposed to do? I know, you don’t believe…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Before you dismiss what I’m about to say due to the headline on Facebook, and before I get off into the full story of what happened to me, let me just show you up front an excerpt from one scientific-health journal article.…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As the sun rises over the Sierra mountain ridge with a clear blue sky as a backdrop, 2,797 miles west of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. on this MLK national holiday, I woke up thinking about were I…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – At least the sun is shining in the new year in the great state of California, even as dark clouds still block the sun on democracy in Washington, D.C. on this fifth infamous anniversary of Trump’s insurrection to overthrow the United States government on…
We begin 2026 by documenting Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions and crimes – By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – As the year 2025 came to an ignominious close, a few friends were having drinks while the view of the fireworks out the front apartment window was obscured by…
By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – We were somewhere around Sunnyvale headed north at high speed on 101 in the Forest Green Gwyneth Ford, a media camper van, when the sun finally burned through the fog, just in time to reveal the view of South Bay. The…
“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…
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…
“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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
