As I sat in my last class of the day, Algebra II, which was not only my most despised subject but also the one that I was remarkably inept in, my eyes drifted from the nonsensical letters and numbers on the board to the windows that lined the left...
Is it possible to have an open heart and a closed fist? Is it possible to have an open mind and a closed door? Can one have a humble, meek, lowly spirit one moment and then a spirit of contention, divisiveness, arrogance and intolerance in the next...
Any time I leave the house, I always ask my husband and kids if they need anything from the grocery store or Walgreens or Target or wherever I happen to be headed. They usually do – and it’s almost never something easily located. Daughter 1: “Yes...
Summer for me has always been a great marker of time. More so even than Christmas, as lovely, sentimental, and holy as that season certainly is. It’s so easy to float a summer wind back to visceral warm weather moments, a slightly sun burned body...
Plumes of black smoke stuttered up from the muffler of my grandmother’s abused Buick Riveria as she rocketed down the unfamiliar winding road. Zack and Angie, my much younger brother and sister, squealed gleefully as they tumbled over every each...
The Crestview Cemetery was in plain view. It was way too spooky, too dark, and too unkempt for me to linger any longer than I already had. It never had any visitors. Not even the hoodlums bothered to vandalize it. I glanced over at the tombstones...
Do you have a soul gardener in your life? Soul gardeners live a life of intentional nurturing of others. To these compassionate connectors “you reap what you sow” isn’t just a salient quip to point out the negative consequences of one’s actions; it...
The clock was bearing down on midnight of a day that already seemed 86 hours long when Tony and I crossed into Welch, the once booming mining town that many of the old-timers still called “Little New York” because of the confluence of cultures who...
Snoring makes me an irrational, seething, rage-filled lunatic. My husband, Tony, fell asleep on the couch over the weekend when we were watching a movie. I was still awake and had every intention of finishing the movie. However, between the grating...
The words we speak conjoined with the tone with which we deliver them can either be a force that inspires good feelings and open hearted interaction or little land mines which ignite negativity, reinforce reactivity and spark conflict. The Blurt...