My study window looks out over the neighborhood park. I have logged hundreds of miles in laps around that park over the past 24 years, and yet, there is something[…]
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2020
Year: 2020
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Dec
2020
During the cold, dreary days of winter, a popular childhood pastime was listening to records. (For those of you too young to remember, records were flat, black, vinyl discs upon[…]
20
Dec
2020
This morning, as I walked through the first snow of the year, I noticed the quiet stillness created by the gently falling flakes. No other form of precipitation produces this[…]
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Sep
2020
A few days before my 60th birthday, an unexpected package appeared in the mailbox. Tucked inside was a book, the title of which had coincidentally recently been added to my[…]
19
Aug
2020
Have you ever received something you didn’t even know you wanted until you had it? Earlier this summer, that’s exactly what happened to me. For nearly two weeks last month,[…]
26
Jul
2020
Have you ever noticed that human nature is only used to explain undesirable behavior? Human nature is declared, and all too often accepted, as the explanation for nearly every example[…]
12
Jul
2020
Standing in a theatre lobby (preCOVID), I overheard some young cast members engaged in a conversation. They were sharing their mutual admiration for a more experienced fellow actor who refused[…]
3
Jul
2020
What exactly does it mean to be grown up? How do we know when we are? Is it based on age or achieved by merely reaching physical maturity? There are[…]
1
Jun
2020
My older son has been urging me to write a blog for years. At first I resisted because frankly, I didn’t like the word blog. It sounds like something that[…]
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May
2020
Previously I wrote that words are powerful. After thinking about that statement, I would like to modify it. More accurately, words can be powerful. Words, in and of themselves, have[…]