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…
How Many Does It Take?
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…
The Beauty & Power of Words
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…
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…
