by mmooney | Sep 11, 2020 | The Friday Message
Time magazine features a black border on the cover of the current issue. The cover displays one number – 200,000. A conservative number of lives in this country lost to COVID-19. There is no doubt that Fearless Leader knew how serious this virus was or that he...
by mmooney | Sep 4, 2020 | The Friday Message
I intended to avoid politics this week. CNN posted a great video in their daily 5 things news update of a festival in Aomori Japan. Nebulas are paper floats created for the annual festival. The float is 30 feet wide and 15 feet tall and consists of colored paper on a...
by mmooney | Aug 27, 2020 | The Friday Message
There are many things that bring back fond memories of my mother, Laura. Like the current Hurricane that bears her name, she was a force of nature. Laura was born on a cattle ranch in Helena Montana and grew up with 11 siblings. At fifteen she was working as a nanny...
by mmooney | Aug 21, 2020 | The Friday Message
I hope you are watching the DNC with an open mind and a good supply of Kleenex. It has been emotional, uplifting and frightening. I wrote a friend of mine that I hoped he got to hear the speech of Michelle Obama, he and I share a profound concern for our country,...
by mmooney | Aug 14, 2020 | The Friday Message
Only twenty five miles from downtown McCall, Idaho – with the last 15 miles on wash board dirt road – you will find the trail head to Upper Hazard lake. I have cat skied some of this territory in the winter but the summer provides a whole different view....
by mmooney | Aug 7, 2020 | The Friday Message
As our Fearless leader quite obviously read a speech extolling his signing of the Great American Outdoors Act he came across a curious word. Yosemite or yo-semites as he stutteringly uttered twice, along with the intended visual grandeur envisioned by the writers of...
