Occasionally I receive notes from people thanking me for helping them find their way. They usually go something like this – “Your teaching has changed me. I value the example I see in you.”  I am encouraged by notes like that.… Continue reading

  A beautiful young woman in the prime of her life was murdered by a predator, her death brutal and ugly. To that horrible man, she was not a person, she was a ‘thing’ to be used and discarded in… Continue reading

No question about it… life can be disappointing, down right heart-breaking.  Life’s moments include the trivial irritants like broken appliances and the crushing blows of death. Some people become joyless, cynical – even hateful – creatures who spread darkness. Others… Continue reading

I walked away from the stove for a moment to check on something and forgot that I had the burner turned up high. When I heard the sizzling sound of liquid meeting flame I quickly returned to find a mess,… Continue reading

“What an idiot!” How many times have you dismissed another with that kind of assessment? “I just don’t know how anybody in her right mind could do that!”  With those kinds of dismissive words, we judge; often without really knowing… Continue reading

  Emotions… are presently my close companions, coming from my wounded heart, that still bleeds.  Since Bev’s death sorrow has been just a smell, a song, a memory away.  But, truthfully, so is joy. I look out this morning over… Continue reading

Living successfully in 2016 requires multiple sets of skills. Recently an elderly couple bought a new car. The switches and buttons that control the various features confused them. The technology that is a blessing to me is a challenge to… Continue reading

I remarked to a friend, “I wonder what I did to God?” It was supposed to be a joke, but in speaking the words, a little too much of my authentic emotions crept into the words and they were not… Continue reading

  I have a thousand pictures of my late wife. Looking through them brings me comfort and often I post a few on Facebook, a way to remember her. Even as I do, I smile, knowing that she would protest… Continue reading

I’m dying. Rather dramatic statement, isn’t it?  No, I don’t have any current medical condition (that I know of) that makes my demise imminent. In fact, my current life expectancy is about 22 years, according to a calculator posted by… Continue reading