Ice Cream Made of Mashed Potatoes
Any well trained teacher or psychologist will tell you children can learn empathy from reading books and identifying with the characters. The same goes for adults. Books that no one … Continue reading →
Don’t Rain on My Parade
Remember the kids in school who could take the joy out of anything? Bitter and unhappy, they could bully you out of your lunch money, remind you your prom dress … Continue reading →
Hand in Hand
In his poem “The Death of the Hired Hand,” Robert Frost wrote “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” Of … Continue reading →
…The More They Stay the Same
Amazon Prime recently featured the 1938 romantic comedy film HOLIDAY, starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. The names of the stars may be unfamiliar to most of the population today, … Continue reading →
Consequences
Once upon a time, there was an American TV quiz show called Truth or Consequences. It was meant for fun, of course, not the kind of consequences real-life lies can … Continue reading →
Dealing with Election Disappointment
Getting candy corn instead of peanut butter cups for trick or treat. Coming down with stomach flu moments before I was to go ice skating with my best friend. And … Continue reading →
Sadly, Distrust
Many people are really good at looking you straight in the face while spouting outrageous falsehoods. I have no clue when people first began lying, but it was probably shortly … Continue reading →
Perseverance
Cold arrives here in the high country of the Rocky Mountains in surges these days, leaving the wildflowers empty and dry, their cheerful colors only a memory…with one exception. Pictured … Continue reading →
Yearning to be Safe
When I was twelve, my girlfriends and I walked door-to-door Halloween trick-or-treating together. When the time came for us to go home, the air was chill and the streetlights glowed … Continue reading →
Death Doesn’t Mean Gone?
The topic of life-after-death affects many people like a bad case of poison ivy. They avoid it with religious fervor. For others, it’s the twisted subject of horror movies or … Continue reading →
