Distracted by a Good Story

  Sailing along highway 20 in rural Mississippi, I thought the gas gauge read a tad more than half full when I glanced at it – but who can study a gauge at 80 70 mph? I told Doug, he relaxed and we settled back into listening to the CD recording of All the Light...
Me? I am Not a Collaborator!

Me? I am Not a Collaborator!

When I read The Diary of Anne Frank, I was a bit older than she was when she wrote; when I saw the movie, I was the age she was when she died. I knew her story was a real one – a life lived in unimaginable times (to me, living in America in the 1950’s and early...
A New Wrinkle on an Old Problem

A New Wrinkle on an Old Problem

On an earlier trip this year to Maryland, an unexpected benefit of finding myself on antibiotics for one problem was a reprieve for another — from the annoying problem my hands have presented for three years now.1   Relief has continued slowly and little by...