It feels like only yesterday I was in the USA visiting with family and friends in the USA—but a look at my calendar confirms that we are only one week from Christmas. So much has happened since I returned, and [...]
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As most of you know, I’ve been quite busy working on my book. This week I crossed a major milestone—my book is now available on the USA Amazon website for presale! To my surprise, although I categorized it under Family [...]
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He must have been seduced by a lone bleeding heart blooming in my window, or was it the scent of mint from the plant next to it? The metal screen covering the bars on my window didn’t connect at the top and he slipped through. When did he discover he was trapped? Was it when […]
I’ve been thinking about the word “shame” lately. We all know what shame is, but I think we rarely think of it in its full meaning. According to Webster, shame is a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety. I’ve been seeing a lot of finger pointing on the Internet lately, with […]
I’ve been working on a newsletter at work, for which I needed to write about a word related to planning for the future. Well DUH, what better word to focus on than the word “future?” My thoughts, however, wandered, and I wrote: There is a saying in English, “Today is the tomorrow you worried about […]
No, it wasn’t cocaine or a street drug. It was pain medicine prescribed by my doctor. And getting off of it was awful. You see, I’d been suffering from awful back pain since last Autumn. It simply wouldn’t go away and the only thing that worked was Ibuprofin. Although I had no kidney problems, no […]
You would think that writing about so simple a word as “Hallelujah” would be easy. But it’s not. I remember years ago hearing a respected preacher say that the root of the word meant “thousands” and so “Hallelujah” means to praise the Lord a thousand times. I objected and was told that obviously my Hebrew […]
