by Griff Martin | Sep 23, 2013 | Opinion
Last year, one book was the talk of the summer: “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. Following the popular genre of female memoir-spirituality-adventure writing of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat Pray Love,” “Wild” tells the story of one woman...
by Griff Martin | Jun 3, 2013 | Opinion
In the last few weeks, I have been taken with the photography of Matej Peljhan. In particular, his most recent collection, which he has titled “Le Petit Prince” based on the famous French book “The Little Prince” written by Antoine de...
by Griff Martin | May 28, 2013 | Opinion
It’s almost too much these days to even turn on the television news, open the morning paper or log on to a news website. Most of us are on edge and we can’t handle another bad news story. The Boston Marathon bombing. The kidnapped trio of women in...
by Griff Martin | Apr 23, 2013 | Opinion
A local hospital called me early on a Monday morning to visit one of their new patients. All I was told was that this gentleman had been homeless and had served in the current war. Upon arrival, I was told to go to the psych ward, enter an access code and see the...
by Griff Martin | Mar 5, 2013 | Opinion
As a boy, I spent a great deal of the summer at my grandparent’s ranch. It was a child’s dream – endless space to roam, all sorts of animals, ponds to swim in, trees to climb and stars to count. One day, I was running around the yard instead of doing what...