Scott Harris's Blog, page 22

A Life on the Road

We’re wrapping up a two-week, 5,000-mile RV road trip. It’s been great, but we head back home today. I’m lying in bed, reading, watching the sun come up over the northern Nevada mountains and listening to one of the great sounds – a train whistle. I’m also listening to the gentle snoring of my wife [...]

2016 Election

"We have a choice to make, and we’re left with these two." We’ve done it. In what can only serve as a stark reminder as to why the Founding Fathers feared democracy, we’ve selected Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as our presidential nominees for the 2016 election. There are more than 300 million [...]

Gettysburg Address

I recently visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, which was a spectacular way to spend an afternoon. While visiting, I picked up a book, “Gettysburg Replies.” The premise of the book is simple — a number of prominent Americans were invited to pen a 272-word (the number of words in the Gettysburg Address) essay, celebrating [...]

Well, Well, Well…

Proudly supporting 59 nonprofits in Ventura County... Yesterday, I wrote about Wells Fargo being tone deaf by having a billboard in the middle of Ventura County touting their charitable work in, well, Los Angeles County. Based on the number of responses I received to my blog, I was not the only Ventura County [...]

Wells Fargo: Tone Deaf

"...this is a stark, self-imposed reminder that Wells Fargo doesn’t care about our community." Wells Fargo is very proud of the fact that they support 827 nonprofits in Los Angeles County. I love to see large corporations –– businesses of any size, actually –– supporting the various nonprofits that do so much for [...]

International

As much as I love travel right here at home, there’s just something that gets the blood racing about international travel. A trip overseas feels so much more exotic and adventuresome than a trip in the U.S. As much as I love travel right here at home, there’s just something that gets the [...]