Friends Come and Friends Go, But a True Friend…
“Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.” The quote comes from Proverbs chapter 18, verse 24 in The Message translation of the Bible. It…
Ramblings and musings – on reading, education, mindfulness, mental health, kindness and whatever other things are tumbling through my mind
“Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.” The quote comes from Proverbs chapter 18, verse 24 in The Message translation of the Bible. It…
I like learning things. I go out and research things to find facts and details. I just did a little research using the area Americans tend to value above all…
Some equate being a good reader with being a fast reader. I am a good reader – I comprehend and retain (to use educational terminology). I am not, however, a…
It’s a feeling that starts as an emptiness in the pit of the stomach. Beginning as a niggling feeling that things are not right, it foretells something ominous approaching, or…
I am currently reading Caring for Words in a Culture of LIes by Marilyn McEnyre (W. B. Erdmans Publishing Co, 2009). I am about a third of the way through…
As we face the Christmas season here in the midst of a pandemic, we do so having learned through Thanksgiving about human nature and the willingness to alter traditions for…
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.;” John Greenleaf Whittier I remember reading this quote years ago. I tried to take…
Going through high school and college at the end of the 1960’s and the first half of the 1970’s, I had been told over and over how highly ranked my…