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 […]
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 […]
This is the question raised by Father Boules George, an Egyptian Coptic Priest, during a sermon on the Eve of Passover Monday, following the Palm Sunday bombings of two Coptic churches—one in Tanta, and one in Alexandria. The world was appalled and moved on to other things. Apparently his question and the way he answered […]
There I was on the highway using my reliable phone GPS—Waze—and close to an hour late for the party. I’d left in plenty of time. The problem was that I had assumed I knew where I was going without checking if what I thought matched the actual information I’d been given. Whenever I use the […]
I am at that in between spot on the globe where I celebrate 2017 after and before others, kind of like the today squished between yesterday and tomorrow—or the calm before the storm. It has been an amazing year. I have no idea what is ahead, but I am thankful for all that has been. I’ve […]