Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Good Thursday morning from my muggy midwestern mitten state, where I’m here to welcome you to today’s free chat session. Storms brought rain and wind throughout the state yesterday, and this morning I’m noticing mushrooms MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: July 25, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers! It’s Tuesday—what does that mean? Tacos! (Seriously, does anyone really make tacos on Tuesday or are they a regular on your family’s menu, regardless of the day of week?) I will MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

“Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and while they continue to evolve, they are also in grave danger. Largely due to overfishing, shark and ray populations fell by 71.1% between 1970 MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 29

Howdy News Viewers, and welcome to Friday’s free chat — the theme of this week’s news seems to be “Hot Air” whether from talking GOP heads or an overheating planet. Hot Air. Soaring temperatures, soaring MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

This is our Monday free chat — free range, and today as usual it’s environmental and varied– most topics most of the time within and without reason. Today it’s weather becausethe temps are also without MORE

Last Call

Last Call: July 15, 2023

Good evening, News Viewers and welcome to the weekend! I will admit to having no desire to be creative or pretty much anything because 102 degrees does that to a person. We were supposed to MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday: July 14, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday. Oh, and welcome to June. Our lovely Rachel is still out so…you’re stuck with me today. We’ve had a very busy news week so like last week, let’s MORE

Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Good morning, viewers of news and friends of News Views. This is Coffee Talk, the place where we can discuss whatever you choose that may or may not be worthy of its own dedicated space. MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: July 11, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Tuesday! What’s going on in your world? For those who live in the west and especially, the southwest, we’re in for a heatwave, a bigly heatwave. It looks like MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

Good morning, News Viewers, on a beautiful Monday morning with clear blue skies, where Free Range Free Chat puts the focus on Mother Earth and all things nature. Since the end of June, the local MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Chat Friday, Week 27

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday. We’re still waiting for our lovely Rachel to return and hopefully, that will come soon. Hope all is well in your world. Let’s celebrate the end of the MORE

Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Good morning, Coffee Talkers. I’m on my third cup and nothing seems to be working after a night’s sleep interrupted by thunderboomers. Apparently we’ve moved into our latest weather pattern — soggy and muggy — MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: July o4, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Fourth of July!…well, except to those who espouse authoritarianism and theocratic views; find an island and leave our FREEDOM alone. Yeah, I know I sound like the Orange Ass MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

After spending over a week in American Samoa in May, 93-year-old Joy Ryan had set a world record becoming the oldest woman to visit all 63 national parks. Over the past eight years, she and MORE

Last Call

Last Call: July 1, 2023

Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend and another month. Happy July! 2023 is now half way gone. Seems like just yesterday, I was whining about the pouring down rain and wind storms MORE

Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Good morning, free chatters, it’s another Thursday with so much to chat about and all day to do it! Coffee Talk is the free chat space with a proposed free chat topic, and today we’re MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: June 27, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Summer…and, if you live in CA , welcome to our first, summer heatwave. We have had such a mild summer, thus far, but that ends today. I just checked MORE

Free Range Free Chat

Free Range Free Chat

Good Monday morning, News Viewers, I’m enjoying a much-needed soggy one with my coffee after a nice drenching yesterday and (hopefully) a lingering drizzly day to come. We’re a few inches below our normal, and MORE

Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Good morning Coffee Talkers of the News Views tribe, welcome to Thursday and Thursday’s free chat space. What’s happening in your atmosphere this morning? Did anyone else think it was never going to get dark MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday: June 20, 2023

Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Last Day of Spring annnnnnd…Happy National American Eagle Day. Yep, I learned something new: June 20th=National American Eagle Day. Maybe I once knew this but I I guess I MORE

Last Call

Last Call: June 17, 2023

Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend! I tried…for like five minutes, to be creative and post some music history but that didn’t happen because I started getting ‘the look’ that I need MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 24

Happy Friday, News Viewers — and Happy Fathers Day to past, future, present fathers and those who become fathers to the fatherless. My own father was a career Army chaplain, Southern Baptist born and bred, MORE