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…
Wait, What Responsibility Do I Have in Their Lies?
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…
Old Fashioned Traditions
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…
It Might Have Been
“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…
Words From Our Sisters
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…
They Show Us Who We Are, Who We Could Be
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…
A Need For Boundaries
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…
“Hello, Dottie”
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…
