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...
The day after Easter is not unlike the day after Christmas. For those who are fortunate enough to have it off, — and once upon a time, many, many people did — it’s a day of recovery, reflections, and reconnoitering. A Day of Recovery I have been recovering from two...
There are some days I just need a brace — those days when my back resists an upright posture. Now, everyday I need a banister as I ascend and descent the cellar steps. Balance and sure-footedness have never been constant companions. But they are more frequently AWOL...
Inspiration Up Close Early days in spring are my favorite; almost as much as the later days in autumn delight me. I like the contrast between the soft colors of early spring as much as I enjoy the vibrancy of peak autumn colors. Both color palettes inspire feelings...
Appliances are a mixed blessing; they teach me over and over the limitations of my knowledge. But where would I be without them?(!) Whether it is the TV, my phone, or, this time, a refrigerator, I do not understand what makes them work, no matter how detailed or...
These are times that make me wonder what I am wired for. It certainly is NOT the twenty-four hour news cycle! We just aren’t wired for this much information, my friend observed. A true truth: as the world enters its third week, more than a few of my wires feel...
Daily, I feel like I am watching a slow-motion rape of an independent nation by another -- even as news reports the fierce Ukrainian resistance and all nations in the world save four condemned the brutal assault. For all the Bible I say I know, why do I keep...
The exercise bike’s missing piece — actually the stabilizing front bar- arrived and have been secured! Of course it has a little “dashboard”that tells me how fast and far I am biking. It also tells me how many calories I am burning. Do you know how long I had to...
As January 2022 departs it left a familiar snowy calling card; perhaps colder than previous ones. Our Christmas tree still twinkles from morning to night, and we are still sipping our coffee from seasonal mugs. The weather is seasonal, and our social calendar . . . is...
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...
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