Call me old-fashioned, but I still delight at finding personal letters in the mailbox. There is just something uplifting about a handwritten letter. A letter is testament that thoughts of[…]
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Aug
2026
Tag: Words
31
Jul
2025
Lately, the word ‘right’ seems to be cropping up everywhere. I’m not sure if it’s because it actually is being used more or if it’s because I’m just realizing how[…]
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[…]
31
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[…]
30
May
2020
Standing at about five foot nothing, my grandmother was a woman of few words. But her face, especially her piercing, slate blue eyes, spoke volumes. I don’t ever remember her[…]
29
May
2020
The current culture of anger deeply disturbs me. Granted, anger is a natural human emotion, a signal that something is awry. However, it is both seductive and deceptive, creating the[…]
27
May
2020
Forty-three years ago, the high school athletic coach asked me to be the scorekeeper for the boys’ basketball and baseball teams. I spent the next few years traveling all over[…]
19
Apr
2020
Years ago, when my knees were much younger, I ran four miles a day. One late-summer morning, I set off under ideal conditions – a clear sky, low humidity, and[…]