Looking to the Sunrise
I relish the sunrise anytime—fall, winter, spring, summer— just like I can enjoy a good steak, regardless of the season. But summer puts some extra jam on the biscuit: in summer, or even spring, I can step outside and at once be enveloped by the sun’s aura as it awakens my little corner of the …
When People Talk Behind Your Back Pt. I
Encased in Stone?
“What did you think about Abraham Lincoln?” I asked my grandson as we were walking out of the visitor center at the Lincoln birthplace in Hodgenville, Ky. Eli was barely 5 years old at the time. He needed someone to care for him on Fridays, because pre-school was available only Monday through Thursday. I volunteered, …
Sucker-Punched
Maybe the current crises has you feeling like you’ve been sucker-punched. There’s a lot of anger in our society right now. We get angry about a lot of things, including what to do with angry people, which makes us even angrier. How do we deal with angry people? Maybe they are at your home, your office, …
