I’ve had a problem with Halloween for quite awhile. If you’ve read my earlier posts about how we are becoming a culture of death rather than a culture of love, you might […]
Remember Me–All Hallow’s Eve
Why I Bought a Golden Retriever Puppy—Even Though I Believe in Rescue
In the 1990s, I had two Golden Retrievers that I took over from my mother. She’d found that they needed too much exercise and she didn’t have the energy for them, and […]
Is This Love That I’m Feeling?
During Florida’s latest hurricane scare, I downloaded a local news station’s app. Now, every day, on my phone, I get headlines about mass murders, murder-suicides, and violence of all sorts. I do […]
The Reluctant Feminist: The Evolution of My Mother
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my mother. I suppose it is the approach of the 25th anniversary of her early death that leaves me bewildered that she could possibly have […]
A Teaching Philosophy: I ♥ School
When the last days of summer arrive, I get that back-to-school feeling. It’s the same feeling I had when I was a kid, and my mother took me and my sisters shopping […]
The One You Feed
Once again this weekend the news was full of stories of yet more gun violence taking innocent lives and all I could think was this: anger and fear are winning. People joke […]
What I Learned in Vacation Bible School
During summer break from school back in the 70s, there were plenty of things to do. My mother ferried us to the YMCA for swim lessons and free swim, and we also […]
Social Media, I Have to Quit You–10 Reasons Why
I’ve spent almost a decade of my life on Facebook. Now, I think, it’s time to change my online presence.
If You See Something, Say Something
“…that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.” William Wordsworth, from “Tintern Abbey” I was asleep in the aisle seat on […]
Driving Summer
The Gloria Sirens 