• Poetry

    Where Meaning LIVES

    We spend minutes, days, years,as if we are keeping score. Did you read the book,ace the test,.graduate? Who lives longest?Who keeps it together until...death do us part? How long until the nest is empty,the career is history,what you’ve sown is…

  • Thoughts

    Go Ahead, Be Fresh

    “I am not a cruise director” is one of the statements I used to make to my children more often than I would have liked, but certainly not on a regular basis. It was my almost reflexive response when one…

  • Thoughts

    Time for Hope

    Jesus has redeemed the time. I’d not understood this until recently. I thought that we (each of us Christians) were called to redeem the time. Where did I come up with such a notion? Well, here and there, from this…

  • Thoughts

    A Happy Marriage

    My husband and kids seldom miss an opportunity to crack a joke about my relationship with time. If you asked one of them, they’d probably say that time and I have long been separated. I see things differently and prefer…

  • Thoughts

    Onward and Around

    It feels like summer is waning. The excruciatingly hot days that felt like they would never end are behind us. Every once in a while, I glimpse a red leaf on another tree, and the down comforter will soon be…

  • Thoughts

    Leave No Stone Unturned

    Three days ago, I sat down to write and, apparently, got so far as to type in the date. Here I am today, though, already well beyond that point. Is it raining? Is that a mist of water I see…

  • Thoughts

    What Would Socrates Do?

    We all have a unique point of view. It would be lovely if more of us tried to appreciate what others think and why. While we’re at it, perhaps we should ask ourselves some questions. What do I want to…

  • Thoughts

    But, Wait

    Viktor Frankl reminds me that it is about the long run. I’m thankful for the message this morning. It is one we don’t hear often enough in our instantaneous world.

  • Thoughts

    And Again

    “Learn to run roughshod over the obstacles in your head” are the first words I posted at a new site I created long ago in the hopes of finally finding the right venue for my words. The domain I purchased…