I was on hiatus last week while I explored Antigua, Guatemala, with my daughter Ruth and dear friend Bev Nemecek. This visit will provide material for future blog posts as well as help me with revision of a novel I’ve written set in Honduras. For now, enjoy a few pictures.
Read MoreThis first appeared in Jackson Citizen Patriot on Friday, March 26. Still relevant, still worrying! We are now in the season of Lent, a time for giving up certain vices, making sacrifices and striving to do good. This year, I decided to try something different for Lent: giving up worry. Worry is hereditary, they say–you […]
Read MoreThroughout high school and college I studied languages. I studied French all eight years, plus several years of Russian in college, a semester of Mandarin Chinese, an independent study of ancient Greek, and some Spanish and Latin. With each new language, a new world and new way of thinking opened up before me. I loved […]
Read MoreEfficiency is over-rated. Efficiency experts tell us how to get organized, to only touch each piece of paper once, to multi-task and hence make the most of our time. However even the experts are realizing that effectiveness is more important than efficiency. You can be very efficient at doing the wrong thing, thereby being ineffective. […]
Read MoreMarriage on the downhill side of fifty is different from marriage in my twenties. Back then, death, illness, cancer, retirement, were all far off phenomena, not on my radar screen. Life was long and we had years ahead of us before we would have to deal with such things, or so I thought. Even […]
Read MoreThe following is from a column I had published in the Jackson Citizen Patriot on Feb. 23, 2007. In light of the bitter cold and blowing snow we have been experiencing this year, it seemed appropriate to post it again with small modifications. Stay safe! During the extreme cold spell a few weeks ago, […]
Read MoreOh, to be a ground hog. I’d pull back the covers and sleep until spring. The unusually cold and bitter weather has robbed me of all motivation. I don’t want to go out. I don’t want to work out. I just want to eat comfort food, after all, I need a few extra rolls of […]
Read More“The gods have two ways of dealing harshly with us, the first is to deny us our dreams and the second is to grant them.” Oscar Wilde What do you do when you have everything you dreamed of and it’s not enough? All of my adult life I dreamed of someday having the time and money to write. I’ve […]
Read MoreAnother day of cold and snow. As this cold snap continues with no end in sight, I find myself lethargic and unorganized. I don’t know what I’m doing with my time, it just goes by until yet another day has passed with nothing to show for it. I blame it on the weather. Grey skies, […]
Read MoreIn this day and age of digital books and ereaders some predict the demise of libraries, at least as a physical building with real people. The libraries of the future will be virtual libraries that you visit via your computer, or whatever the next technological device might be. You will download not only […]
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