Missing Youth (Me, living in Maywood California, when I attended Nimitz Jr. High, with Curly, our dog) Today, I find myself sitting at a desk, in a hotel room, on the sixth floor looking down at a snow covered park, surrounded by wide boulevards and buildings that are over a hundred years old. I...
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Free At Last “This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people, and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’” ~ Zechariah 13:9 ~ I found myself sitting in...
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Unsolicited Advice Before my family had left, on Thanksgiving Day, we were putting autumn officially to rest. It had been a long time since Charlotte put up a Christmas tree, thus Kate took her Mother, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, to select our tree, which spent the night, in the garage, waiting for the...
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El Fracaso de la Iglesia ‘But if heaven never was promised to me, Neither God’s promise to live eternally. It’s been worth just having the Lord in my life. Living in a world of darkness, You came along and brought me the light.” ~ Andrae Crouch ~ From: If Heaven Was Never Promised...
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A Portrait and a Moment With Its Subject You know those moments when you unexpectedly find yourself experiencing something rather marvelous, and you want very much to have someone next to you, to nudge a bit, and share your wow? Well last year, while in Tallahassee, touring Florida’s Historical Capital Museum, I...
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Tying Up Loose Ends I save too much stuff; but oddly I am rarely sorry that I have held on to something. Many years ago, in fact, last century, when my older sister was moving from a house, she had lived in for quite a while, I saw a huge mound of mostly...
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My First Autograph How I wish my Father Had Lived to See Our Countrymen Making History “Cruz is one of three Latinos in the Senate; the others—also Americans of Cuban ancestry—are fellow Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey.” ~ Wikipedia ~ After I said my goodnight prayers, I...
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Miss Hannah Living Life On Her Own Terms “This actually encapsulates me really well…a mug commemorating my signature character, Little Miss Sunshine in hand, and a biography about Oscar Wilde in arm, and a cat scarf around my neck. Me, in a nutshell.” ~ Miss Hannah ~ This morning, as I got off...
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Are We Present? “Too much of our living is done in the past or in the future while we neglect the present. But yesterday is a canceled check and tomorrow is a promissory note. Only today is cash at hand for us to spend.” ~ Sidney Greenberg~ Words to Live By When I read...
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Maybe the Walls Can Talk In film, fairytales, and fiction there are endless references to the fact that women spend at least a portion of their lifetime, fantasying about their wedding day. I can honestly say, if I spent an hour, that was a lot and most likely ingenuous; I did however...
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