In my travels, I have seen many historic sites that chronicle the rise and fall of great civilizations – sometimes we know what happened, other times we speculate. Do we go “too far” causing us to begin again, forcing us back to square one?
We enjoy our technological advances and especially revel in the modern [...]
I do not claim to be a photographer, though I have a newfound pleasure in capturing nature, odd pieces and the simple and exotic experiences as they appear in my book of life. Sometimes pictures trigger my writing, other times a picture I took before stands ready to complement my thoughts.
Real, not photo-shopped pictures [...]
I have never been a Girl Scout…until last week, well, sort of!
Many of us volunteer our time – year round – to make a difference in someone else’s life.
It’s only when you get in the dirt and play, especially with our young people, that you realize what a huge impact sharing stories and exchanging ideas [...]
It was a beautiful, striking sight – and because the sun does look like it is falling, I could hear a panicked Chicken Little declare, “the sky is falling, the sky is falling”.
We cause our earth to ooze thick black muck and we dump mounds of refuse on a daily basis like cancer cells spreading [...]
Take a good look at the word “mindlessness” – does it have a negative or positive ring to you?
Imagine for a minute a space or place where you have no agenda: you simply empty out and do no thing… nothing.
We perform countless tasks throughout our day, many of them leaving us emotionally, mentally and physically [...]
As a young student in Uganda, one of the many poems we were required to recite was “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is amazing how effortlessly I recall the singsong manner in which I learned: “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be [...]
Being in the driver’s seat requires both a steady hand and one flexible enough to adjust one’s navigation plan to accommodate the inevitable bumps in the road.
The real captain of this vessel dubbed me “Captain Zig Zag” as I battled the waves in an attempt to maintain a ’straight course’.
Even with aircraft, there may be [...]
Most of us have run into the phrase that states we must have a “burning desire” for what we want to achieve in life. In another context, we have no problem understanding the word ‘burning”.
From the weather many of you have felt over this past week or so, that word holds a literal meaning.
Do [...]
Are you ever looking from the outside, trying to figure out or reach for something on the inside… or vice versa? Why are we rarely satisfied with what is…how can we ‘be’ with where we are and achieve this “living in the moment” everyone talks about?
It may sound like a whimsical dream to some [...]
I love good, let your hair down, real fun. So, a couple of weekends ago, I was delighted to have an opportunity to speak before some “loverly” ladies of a local Red Hat Society – there was a queen and a duchess, two princesses and a baroness and fairy tales made up by yours [...]
