We just had a holiday last week called “Memorial Day.” Even though this holiday came about to honor the war dead, it has all too often lost its connection to any patrio ...
Someone recently asked what some of my hobbies were, and the answer wasn’t very thrilling – reading and writing. Other pursuits figure in but these are two that are esp ...
A few years ago we stopped receiving all cable channels and now only have the three major networks, PBS and a stray station or two. For me, television was quickly becoming a major ...
Birds did not fare well around our house last week. First of all, the neighborhood cat decided to bring us a prize at the back porch. From what I could tell, it used to be a bluebi ...
Old habits die hard. When you have been doing something for 20 or 30 years or more, it is difficult, almost impossible, to stop.
I remember when I had driven a manual transmission ...
Do you remember 16? For me it was 1975-76. It feels like an entirely different era and surely it was exactly that.
My 16th birthday was on a Sunday. In my diary I wrote about goin ...
One of the first steps out of a problem is realizing that you have one. I thought the chains were broken, but here lately, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in and i ...
Someone once defined prayer as “the verbal part of our relationship with God.” Like most definitions, it is not intended to say all that there is to say about the subje ...
The news came out this week that the Post Office will discontinue Saturday delivery in August. It is just another step into the future and away from what used to make up life in ou ...
I took a brief walk around the block before sitting down to write a bit. It was my kind of night – a little bit of fog, a little bit of mist. It suits a depressive personalit ...
