“Any fun plans this summer?” a friend just asked me. Umm, what constitutes fun? Here are my ideas: Ten Simple Ways to Have A Really Good Summer Watch the sprinklers with someone you love. I’ve seen the Bellagio waters in Vegas, and they’ve got nothin’ on sprinklers. Learn a new bird sound. When we were staying at my brother-in-law’s for… Read More
Do You Really Want A Restored Soul?
Picture a sheep against a dark background, looking at you from a page in the National Geographic. He has been sheered down one side, from nose to tail, in an attempt to show a season of wool growth. But the photographers went through several sheep, before they could find one that could stand up long enough to have its picture… Read More
Water for All in This Great Drought of Holidays
“Do you know where we are?” I asked my students. “We are in the middle of the third quarter. It is a miserable place, in which we are all worn out, and winter has lasted just a few weeks too long. Our skin is pasty white, and we are extremely vitamin D deficient. The work seems never ending, and there… Read More
Where Will You Put Your Troubled Thoughts?
I’m not known for pristine countertops anyway, but if you make it a Friday afternoon and mix in a wedding reception craft, papers to grade, a few lunch boxes from the boy, and a stack of bills, it’s an end-of-the-week disaster. So there’s that preacher man of mine with bachelor party gift in hand. Let’s put this somewhere where I… Read More
Bravery Fatigue
Somewhere mid December it hit, and the laugh that came out of my throat was the kind that makes the other person in the room call for one of those jackets that goes on from the front and ties in the back. I had been brave and exposed on too many fronts for too long. After writing over 500 blog… Read More