In my junior and senior years of high school and all through my college years, I participated in competitive debate. It was a very strange exercise. As a contest, there is one winning side and one losing side -- the classic zero-sum game. There are two debaters per team, each participant speaks twice in the individual debate. The topic debated is the same in every contest for the academic year.

Most of us here may remember the optimism shared around 55 years ago.
And most would agree things have not progressed in favorable terms for us.

The Trump Administration began restricting health care access for Americans on Day 1.

Hangin' at home in suburbia this week babysitting our grandkitty Aurora. She is loving the bigger house and the extra large back yard than her own home. And she already found the catnip patch.
Doing the deep spring cleaning routine and fixing stuff around the house and garage.

We all share the same mitochondrial DNA...we are a human family. We get our mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) from our mother. It is like a symbiotic bacteria in our cells.

In 1987, studies of mitochondrial DNA (which tracks maternal ancestry), suggested that all human beings were descendants of one woman who may have lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.

We also have other mothers in common. We all live on Mother Earth and in Mother Nature. This week we'll take a break from the news and honor Mothers...