Worry Beads and How to Lose Them Reading the Scripture is a good way to pry my fingers off my worry beads. Face it: These are worrying days! Of course I know better than to say I worry – but I sure have concerns! No, I don’t have real beads; I can have emotional ones...
This Thanksgiving is Worrying Some Journalists How we will get through Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends who did not elect our candidates is a bigger worry to some journalists than our eating to much! The first time I heard this, I thought it was a spoof....
It’s too hot to do much else, then ruminate, or bloviate. Weeding is on hold, and so is cooking as far as I’m concerned. The latest painting languishes. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen Of course, cold weather also makes lazing about a...
Triggered is a new adjective that covers a multitude of sins, one of which is turning away from what might be on God’s agenda for me today. And it describes perfectly what happened to me on a recent shopping jaunt! Intent on enjoying some retail therapy I hastened...
Awakened by Another Nightmare My early morning dream jolted me awake. What did it mean? Maybe it reflected the uncertainty I feel in uncertain times. In this dream — another nightmare — I have double booked myself with one too many appointments and am frantically...
The Observation Still Works Elinor Dashwood’s observation works for me: she expressed the restraint our current events necessitates: “And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” (Sense in Sensibility) Just...
These times — that COVID-19 magnified —-have surely taught me how like a sheep I am. And I don’t mean cute and cuddly! I am skitterish and willful. By that, I mean I can worry and wander — looking for a reassuring voice, who echos what I want to hear. Now, Doug is...
As this pandemic continues, the learning curve continues, and seems to lengthen. How teachable am I willing to be? This time last year, I anticipated a learning curve because of the shock of COVID-19* Quarantining, masking, social distancing, vaccinating, etc — these...
Is it over yet? This really should be over. Seriously. I am almost two weeks past my second shot, and I need to be getting on with my life! Wait -- Did someone say "FOURTH surge"? Researchers NPR spoke to all cautioned that public policy and Americans' behavior can...
Readers who write me after reading my blog often point me to answers to prayers I hadn’t realized I prayed. Case in point: This morning a friend read of my tension and described how another friend was able to sign her up in person at the M&T Ravens Stadium in...
Don’t Look Back my owl meme counsels: You aren’t going that way. But I still look back over last year’s journal entries. I am looking for any premonition of the trouble that defined 2020. Nada. Unaware I was; totally. But, I noted some advice that now seems...
Countdown Christmas, as we have known its celebration, is on hold. None of the usual holiday hoopla is diminishing my charm this year! Of course, I’ve had to forego the grumpy personal commentary on how commercial Christmas has become. Well, thanks to COVID-19, I get...
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