The Dumbing Down of America – Am I Part of the Problem?

August 14, 2014

Check out my guest post on SheWrites, Reality Check. To read go to http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/reality-check-the-dumbing-down-of-america-am-i-part-of-the, or click here.

New York and Antigua – A Study in Contrast

July 25, 2014

We arrived in Antigua on a sunny, Sunday afternoon. Because I had just flown in, I didn’t have any Guatemalan currency, waiting to exchange money at a bank where the rate is better. But I had my trusty credit card to pay for dinner. We dined in a lovely restaurant, surrounded by a jungle of […]

The Price of Being Boring

July 17, 2014

Advertising is the price of being boring, Rob Eager of Wildfire Marketing posted last week. If you are not boring you get all kinds of free word of mouth advertising. The rest of us have to pay dearly for such advertising. We are fascinated by people who live exciting lives, using and abusing drugs, living […]

Tying Up Loose Ends

July 11, 2014

Once upon a time there were three sizes of caps to place on the legs of metal chairs. The first one was too small, so I took them back to Lowe’s and got the only other size there. This one was too large. So I went to the local ACO Hardware store only to find […]

Psalm 54: A Lament

July 9, 2014

Have you ever been in a situation where you have felt helpless before outside forces over which you have no control? If you don’t think you have, I would suggest you think again. All of us are subject to forces outside of our control. There are many that we may not be aware of, yet […]

Why I Write? Blog Tour

June 30, 2014

Writing Process Blog Tour Thank you to Niki Tulk for inviting me to participate in this blog tour. Niki is a writer and mother, living in New York. Her blog, About Shadows, Wings and Other Things, can be found at http://nikitulk.wordpress.com. Q – How does your work differ from others of its genre? A –I’m […]

Am I "That" Person?

June 26, 2014

(Me and my birthday flowers. I was going to take my first “selfie” only to realize you can’t do that with a flip-phone so I enlisted the aid of my husband.) As I turn fifty-eight today, I am asking myself, “Am I “that” person? Do you remember that person from your college years […]

On Writing and Free Floating Anxiety

June 20, 2014

“If you went into a government lab to design a program to instill anxiety and neurosis, you couldn’t do much better” John Scazi wrote about the writing process. So that explains it? That explains this free floating fear, this muted terror. It’s not fear for the future, fear that at fifty-seven I have already out-lived […]

Dad’s Roll-Top Desk

June 13, 2014

I’ve always loved wooden objects. I don’t know where this love comes from. I can’t necessarily attribute it to the fact that Jesus was a carpenter for this love preceded my knowledge of Jesus, though later I did make the association between wood, carpentry and Jesus. Perhaps it was the hardwood floors in the hallway […]

Psalm 51: A Contrite Heart

June 11, 2014

In response to God’s call for “no bull” in Psalm 50, we hear Psalm 51, the most well-known of the Penitential Psalms where the writer comes before God with a contrite heart and prays for the removal of personal and social sin, a psalm commonly associated with Lent. Attributed to King David after being confronted […]

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