“But I don’t wanna go to school today,” my grandson told me as I opened the car door for him. “I know,” I said, “some days I don’t feel like going to work, either.” We all have those days, days when we just have to slog through, days when it feels like we are trudging …
I glanced at the sign alongside the highway: “A Taste of Home.” It was an advertisement for a restaurant. “Hmm,” I thought, “really? A taste of home?” At 516, Navajoe Road, Altus, Oklahoma, where I grew up, it was a pot roast on Sundays, like only Mom could do it, cooked to perfection. If it …
It’s often in the ordinary moments of our ordinary lives that we make the most extraordinary impact on others. We should remember that on September 11, for among the many lessons we learned from that tragedy, perhaps the most lasting take-away for us it to live fully each moment we have, for life is lived moment by …