John Cali I recently spent a day in Yellowstone National Park with a good friend. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Yellowstone is in the northwest corner of Wyoming in the northern Rocky Mountains of the US. Yellowstone, established in 1872 by the US Congress, is the world’s first national park. Over 90% of [...]

John Cali As some of you know, I live in the northern Rocky Mountains of northwestern Wyoming in the USA. Wyoming is a huge state, ninth in size among the 50 United States. It’s a vast, sprawling land of rolling prairies stretching beyond the distant horizons, and high rugged mountains reaching far up into the [...]

John Cali I rarely pay much attention to the mainstream news media. But I do spend several minutes most Sunday mornings browsing the Washington Post’s headlines at their website. That way I’m not totally ignorant of what’s going on in our world. Today I was thinking about what is going on in our world, and [...]

John Cali I’ve been noticing lately how judgemental and critical we humans can be of one another. Especially in this era of the so-called “war on terror,” and war on practically everything we deem wrong or evil. This extends even to something as bland and benign as someone’s opinion with which we disagree. Or someone’s [...]