Straight From The Hart

  Have you ever been to Bozeman, Montana? If you haven’t, you need to put it on your bucket list and go to the Museum of the Rockies there. It is located at Montana State University and is a Smithsonian Affiliate, recognized as one of the world's finest research and history museums. It is renowned for displaying an extensive collection of dinosaur fossils, including a T. rex skeleton! MOR delights visitors with changing exhibits from around the world, permanent indoor and outdoor regional history exhibits, planetarium shows, educational programs, insightful lectures, benefit events, and a museum store. (This information taken from its website.) It all started back in the early 1900s by a female doctor named Caroline McGill. She was described in the book “Woman Of Distinction” by Mary Redfield Lindsey in this way: “...a petite sparkling individualist - erudite, Irish wit, courtly manners and earthy frontier folkways all combined in 118 pounds and five feet, one and a half inch...

  It is September 11, 2014. I’ve listened to the roll call of names. I’ve heard the bell being rung. I’ve seen the wreath being laid. I’ve sat through several moments of silence. And my wastepaper can is almost filled with the tissues I’ve used just remembering. I’m sitting right now where I was sitting on that fateful morning 13 years ago - working at my computer with my favorite news channel streaming live news in the background. Little did I know that I would never use a news channel as just background noise again. My entire world changed that day, as did yours, and coverage of current news events became a part of the fabric of my life. But it is not just September 11, 2001 that I’m remembering today. I am also thinking about September 11, 2012, and my heart is crying inside. The similarities are chilling. In 2001, the skies were blue with beautiful clouds in New York City. People were going about their regular daily routines, never dreaming what would happen at 8:46 th...