by Butch Mazzuca | May 1, 2023 | American Life, Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
In the mid-1800s thousands of European rabbits were introduced into Australia for the purposes of sport-hunting. But rabbit populations expand exponentially, and soon the botanical composition of the areas where the rabbits were introduced was altered. Because those... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Jan 29, 2023 | Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
Bobbi and I are in the process of re-locating to Tucson, so I guess one might say we’re trading the mountains for the desert, which means tomorrow may be my last blog post until after we’ve moved, and I have a home-office again. When Bobbi and I bought our home 17... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Jan 2, 2023 | American Life, Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
The two issues I find most disturbing about the politics of this country are the state of our southern border and climate change. So today and tomorrow I’m going to address each. Beginning with the border, I simply do not understand why a government, any government... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Oct 3, 2022 | Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
The older I get the more I find myself thinking about some of the choices I made in life and how they have affected me to this day. Why did I attend the University of Dayton and not De Paul University, and what would my life look like now if I had? And how many of... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Sep 26, 2022 | American Life, Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
Before I moved to Vail some twenty odd years ago, my next-door neighbors in Denver had two sons, Tommy, and Kevin. Tommy was your typical teenager, but Kevin was 30-year-old man who apart from his six-foot two-inch frame resembled an “adult” in very few ways – you... Read More
by Butch Mazzuca | Oct 4, 2021 | American Life, Life Lessons, Recent Commentaries
Why do we get so passionate about politics? Perhaps we’re really “pack animals” and derive much of our identity and even some self-esteem by identifying with groups we belong to. We’re proud of and identify with our social clubs the schools we attended and even the... Read More
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