My sister Evie is a very gifted teacher. She spends every school day (and more) working with 11 to 13 year-old middle school students. Young minds benefit from her fundamental words of guidance that apply to every human being.
“We all make choices,” Evie reminds us.
Right you are, dear sister. How often we forget that we [...]
Could it be that an entire school year has gone by since Jim left for college? Now that it is time to make the drive up north to bring Jim home for the summer, I have become acutely aware of the elegant ebb and flow of our time-space continuum.
Time has an oddly unique perspective for [...]
Normally, I love this time of the evening. It is my highly anticipated relaxation time on the front porch after a long and busy day. I make a tall glass of iced tea, light a cigarette, and take in the scenery. The air begins to cool ever so slightly, and rays from the setting sun [...]
I thought it was just me. Then during recent conversations with fellow human beings, it would seem that my own current observations were showing some obvious threads of similarity between us. A theme evolved. I knew that it was no longer just me.
There appears to be a ‘funk’ lingering within our present relationship with the [...]
When I was a young child, I loved to watch television shows like The Jetsons and Lost In Space. This was the height of science fiction during the 1960’s.
In real life, our meals were not being prepared by robots, and we were not able to communicate with people via small television screens. Microwaves were fairly [...]
