For many years, Christmas Eve found me assembling toys, inserting batteries, wrapping gifts, and filling stockings into the wee hours of the morning. A favorite holiday movie, “It’s a Wonderful[…]
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Dec
2025
Category: On The Foundation
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Dec
2025
(Season’s Greetings! In case you have a few minutes to read during this season of full schedules and festive activities, here is the final section of Chapter 1 of What[…]
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Dec
2025
As we enter the season of advent, I wanted to share a Christmas story inspired by a childhood memory. This account is loosely based on actual events. We did live[…]
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Nov
2025
A corollary effect of frequently having my nose buried in a book was the emergence of an intense fascination with language. I marveled at the facility of language to conjure[…]
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Nov
2025
(As promised, here is another installment from my proposed book, What Did I Tell You? This is the first six pages of Chapter One. Thank you for reading and please[…]
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Nov
2025
Prologue There really are places in your heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child. ~Anne Lamott The human voice is potent. The sound penetrates the human[…]
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Sep
2025
Calls for peace are becoming more frequent in response to the near daily reports of violent crimes fueled by anger, dissent, and hate. However, these calls for peace are sometimes[…]
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Mar
2023
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[…]
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Feb
2021
“If you have love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” ~James M. Barrie Valentine’s Day[…]
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Jan
2021
Daily reports of hate-motivated violence, divisive rhetoric, threats to long-held racial, religious, and gender liberties, along with irreparable attacks on our planet, have led me to limit screen exposure. It’s[…]