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Happy New Year, Readers We often start our new year by declaring all the ways in which we plan to improve ourselves. It’s as though we currently aren’t “good enough.” Not me. I’ll begin with my word … Read More
It’s December 30, which means 2015 will last for just two more days: today and tomorrow. Personally, I’m looking forward to the change. For me, the new year represents a chance to put behind me the many missteps … Read More
How the year has flown. The following story is one I’ve shared before, first in 2013 and again in 2014. It is a story that teaches us that peace can be found if individual men and women want it badly enough … Read More
As we enter our own gift giving season, I’m posting this “Bonus Scene” because the experience helped me look more closely at the gift-giving parts of my own culture that I’d never thought about before. … Read More
One of my favorite blog posts was the one last February on the breastfeeding moms and their school aged breastfeeding kids. Yup, you can read it again by clicking here. One reason I enjoyed writing that so much was that it brought me one of … Read More
December 2, 2015 Last spring on a visit to my grandchildren in Ohio, I had occasion to talk to my eight-year-old granddaughter Kendall about “First World Problems.” Have you heard the term? I had thought it was an idea originating … Read More
SUBSCRIBERS: Please be sure to see my notice at the end of this post. Thanks. Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is upon us. Thanksgiving has long been one of my favorite holidays, though as my sons and their families … Read More
This was to be a blog with no words. Merril D Smith’s blog on Monday, Still Life, got me started. She opened with this quote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more … Read More
Hello, Alpha Mother has been telling me for months that I could have a go at her blog. “The time will come. Just be patient,” she’d say each time I gave her that “look.” So imagine my surprise when she called … Read More