May 17, 2017
You know that feeling when you have worked hard and completed something challenging and you can sit back and catch your breath? It’s a mixture of accomplishment and exhaustion. That’s how I feel today. I have completed another commencement season. This time I did five ceremonies in three cities, made especially difficult because of a huge rainstorm […]
Read More →April 3, 2017
I love the game “I Never.” I always scored big when I pulled out my trifecta of secret weapons. I’ve never had a broken bone. I’ve never had a cavity. I’ve never spent the night in a hospital. I lost the cavity card a few years back, and now the only hand that’s left for me is […]
Read More →March 29, 2017
You hear buzz words all the time. On the television news, in church services, in business meetings. They are the current jargon used by newscasters and politicians, public speakers and people who want to appear trendy. Or should I say on trend? Unoriginal or Relevant? There’s a place for buzz words. They show that you have […]
Read More →October 14, 2015
I left the house later than my normal five minutes, determined to make up the time on my 27-mile commute. As usual, I got stuck behind someone in the fast lane, no doubt someone who’d just crawled down from the Appalachian hills. Don’t these people know what a fast lane is? He drove like a synchronized swimmer, his […]
Read More →October 2, 2014
Have you ever been glad you never got to some nagging element on your continual to-do list? You know, something that takes as much time to write on your list as to actually do it. Remember my bench that washed away in the rainstorm a few weeks ago? My first thought, after admitting how much I […]
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