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...
The resurgence of COVID-19 through the Delta variant daily reinforces old stumbling blocks —specifically information overload. And confusion. ( Delta is more contagious than Expected ) How on earth are we back where we were, with lots of sick people, overworked...
Timing is Everything While I have no business pontificating in these crazy times, that hasn’t stopped me from trying. So, God’s sense of timing is as humbling as His sense of humor. When friends I know, who know better, let their opinions loose on Facebook recently,...
Bob Ross, whose relaxed 30-minute painting sessions from the ‘70’s on PBS still fascinates me, declared, “There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.” Yet, Anton Chekov asserted, “In art, as in life, there is nothing accidental.” Well, twenty-nine days into social...
Unpopped popcorn kernels and a penny were too much for our mighty garbage disposal, freezing it in mid-revolution. What to do? Call a plumber, which we were about to do when our daughter reminded us of the wrench that came with the garbage disposal. It’ s a type of...
Fall Back Here we go again – messing with our clocks as if we control the sun’s rising and setting. This Sunday we will lose the hour of sunlight we gained in spring, which we had lost the previous fall – and so forth. When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the...
An Omen for a Slow Recovery This morning, peeling a Clementine what did I find but mold lurking in its inmost parts? MOLD! Ugh – a real life reflection of what this virus feels like! It's a good thing I've given up omens! It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine mold...
Repeating myself on the 49th Anniversary of an assassination that changed American history and me. On this day in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King’s life ended – shot by an assassin. He and others throughout the 1960’s forced Americans to look at how we treated some of...
Deep in My Brain . . . My brain may be the culprit, and the reason I can’t agree with anything you say! According to the MRI scans, the areas of the brain that were triggered control deep, emotional thoughts about the subjects’ personal identity. When these parts of...
A necessary nuisance of selling and buying a house is its inspection by an independent third party, whose thoroughness will make buyers more aware of their dream home’s shortcomings. And sellers, too. The recent inspector’s report noted some correctable problems –...
A favorite prompt that a writing teacher once gave suggests: Look around and see what you can see. When I look, what do I see? The world is noisy, angry, irrational, and cruel. People hurt each other – from their storehouse of brokenness. So, a quiet moment on our...
Fifty years ago, I never missed “StarTrek” – and thought that all the gadgetry on the sets – like talking computers, and communicators – were hundreds of years in the future. 1 Now, like James Kirk, I can communicate across if not the galaxies, across the States...
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