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 …
Ever since I first heard it, I’ve identified with that story about the businessman barreling through the countryside in his Lincoln Town Car. The guy is hopelessly lost, finally admits it to himself, and stops in a little one- horse-town he happens upon, pulling into a service station in the days when service stations were …
Sometimes kids say things we adults don’t quite understand, words that have a different meaning than we at first thought we comprehended. Such was the case when Eli, our almost seven-year-old grandson, accompanied Lori and me as we signed some financial documents. Eli saw the pictures of the financial manager’s children in his office and …
“When did we become like this?” my friend was referring to the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. We had been reminiscing about college days, “way back when.” We couldn’t help but compare that era to where we are today, and recent events prompted the question. We don’t need to rehearse the …