Browse through social media and you are bound to come across many posts bemoaning the state of the world and wishing we could go back in time to a simpler…

After celebrating the end of a year on December 31, it’s easy to see what the new year is supposed to bring — a good luck menu for dinner which…

When I started my blog I said that it would be “ramblings and musings — on reading, education, mindfulness, mental health, kindness and whatever other things are tumbling through my…

I grew up in the church.  I don’t remember a time that I wasn’t in church.  Even if my parents weren’t coming that day, they would drop us off for…

I’m going to post this quickly before I change my mind. I haven’t written in a long time.  I haven’t really done anything productive or creative in a long time. …

I’ve written posts about how you don’t know what you don’t know.  We all have blind spots, spots where our knowledge is incomplete, incorrect, or not there at all.  I’ve…

“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…