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 …
“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, …
We aren’t victims of our circumstances. We can make a choice about our emotions. I didn’t say “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season …
I was startled by my wife’s phone alarm, not because I’d never heard it before, but because it was mid-afternoon on a Saturday. “Your phone alarm went off,” I said, stating the obvious. Rushing back into the house from the garage, where we were attempting a start on cleaning up and cleaning out winter’s messiness, …
I smiled when I saw them at the graveside service; their presence, though unusual, didn’t surprise me. The honor guard was standing at attention for Frank Spragans, the deceased, whose service I had just officiated. We had concluded the service at the funeral home and were at the graveside. But what was the honor guard …