Month: June 2017

Our dogs. They are so very different. Tonight after dinner, I took all three outside for a walk. This is a real stretch for Maxine, our oldest. She is about 17 years old by our best measure. Mostly blind, deaf,

An outage. Tonight we have one. Of the electrical variety. In fact, we haven’t had electricity since about 3:30 this afternoon. It is getting warm in here and we do not have screens in our windows. It doesn’t bother me

This morning, hungrily, I reached for a box of oatmeal from the pantry shelf. I thought to myself, as I admired the box, “This HAS to be the best oatmeal in the world.” During my incredibly scrumptious breakfast, a few

Word. Words can be powerful things. Spoken, written, even plastered on a billboard… high in the sky, in big bold letters. They will give us instructions on how to put batteries in our new clock, or express to another human

I am not one to give advice. I know I have my little ad-libs here every night about the goodness and power of the Universe. And I believe those things to be true. You know how I go…. like… “C’mon

I went to a birthday party tonight. Little Mr. Titus turned seven. Birthday parties, such as these, always give me cause to think back about my own childhood. But there was Titus tonight, the middle child in his family now.

This was the last time I was at Cedar Point. I was seven. I only remember a few things about the day. The lake was huge. It reminded me more of an ocean than a lake because it had a

I wasn’t going to write tonight, but then I felt suddenly compelled. To talk about angels. I believe in angels. Why shouldn’t I? I think they are all around us, whether we realize this, or not. They have been with

I have a sister named Sue. When she was a kid, she got popped a good one and ended up with a shiner. Suddenly, she was a Black-eyed Susan. I do not have a sister named Rose, or Daisy, or

What makes people great? There are truly many incredible people on this earth. And some, well, not so great. But it is a difficult thing to calculate. There is so much to be considered. And, the measure is largely subjective,