I Didn’t Invite this Guest
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…
Ramblings and musings – on reading, education, mindfulness, mental health, kindness and whatever other things are tumbling through my mind
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…
I am a lover of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies. I like to get to know interesting people in depth, see how they tick, learn what led them to the achievements…
There was a time when I had some people in my life who seemed intent on making me feel less than. In particular, they questioned my intelligence. A couple merely…
What makes reading such a wonderful experience? What makes people want to pick up a book or a Kindle and spend hours of their time turning pages and absorbing the…