A Word Aptly Spoken

I was reading a Facebook post that enumerated things someone liked or blessings they could count.  I liked the list, and it got me to thinking about how we can really be influenced by our surroundings for the good or the bad.  Of course we are probably most aware of how some things in our […]

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 era.  The posts vary greatly showing that the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were all much better times.  They have pictures of people walking […]

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 varies depending on where you live and, of course, resolutions.  Every magazine screams from the cover ways to lose weight, get in shape, save more […]

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 mind.”  Wow.  Focus much?  Kinda shows you what a pinball game it is tracking my thoughts!  However, I really believed it would be mostly about […]

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 Sunday school.  Every time we moved, one of the first orders of business was the search for a new church to attend. An essential part […]

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.  There’s an emptiness right now where the creative muse usually sits.  There is an ennui that has settled on me that keeps me sitting in […]

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 also written about how I am reluctant to read books that have been so highly praised and reviewed that I’m just sure they will fall […]

“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 has been the experience of my life and I imagine yours too. Everyone knows that friendship is a good thing, a big part of a […]

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 else – sports.  Based on the information I got from WorldAtlas.com, here are the top six  largest stadiums in the United States.  First in size […]

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 fast reader.  I used to wish that I could read faster, but I don’t any longer. As a student, reading slowly is not exactly a […]