I headed off to my regularly scheduled Spanish class last week and when I got there, there were people I didn’t recognize plus an interpreter signing in the front of the classroom. For a...
I stopped at an outdoor market the other day to pick up some fresh produce. The weather was above a hundred and it seemed like a pretty miserable job to me, babysitting all those...
I have a series of family pictures taken when our kids were young and we’re all walking backwards. I don’t know if anyone outside the family would realize that we’re doing that — although...
I cancelled a vacation. It was a trip that had been planned for quite a while and then whammo, a couple of big financial obligations crept into the picture — a massive car repair...
The recent national news story about the roller derby girl stopping a mugger who was attempting to steal an elderly woman’s purse felt extra important because it happened in the town where I live....
I love friends. I have friends that I have known since we were in kindergarten together and I have friends that are nearly new. Some of my friends are casual ones that I enjoy...
Reflected sense of self. I read that phrase in a book a couple of years ago and it stuck with me. In that particular book, a reflected sense of self referred to not defining...
The other night I felt mentally low for no discernible reason. The answer I decided, was to head out for Texas barbecue. Why I thought that might be the cure for my blues I’m...
A couple of years ago I started a new direction in business and someone told me, “You can do anything you want to do.” It was meant to be a positive statement of encouragement...
One of my neighbors whose opinions differ greatly from mine recently sent me a couple of emails about his favorite political candidates. He’s aware that my ideas aren’t the same as his yet it...