December 16, 2016
Finally, after 3-1/2 long years, I graduated. Didn’t you just do that, you may ask? This time it’s for real. It’s official. The asterisk beside my name in May, when I walked in the commencement ceremony in Asheville, has now been removed. Last night, as I stood for two hours in an open doorway, blasted by arctic air while […]
Read More →September 9, 2016
“How was your day?” my husband asked me one evening when he arrived home from prison. I won’t go into the reasons he goes to prison, but every week, he does get released. We sat on our porch with two cups of hot tea, watching fireflies light up the darkness. “Same old same old at work,” I said, taking another sip of […]
Read More →June 29, 2016
What is your passion? What activities make you light up? What do you love to do so much that you’d do it for free? So … do you do it? Is your passion part of your life? Do you do this thing that you love to do in your present job? Does your daily life reflect who […]
Read More →May 15, 2016
I have now officially walked in Lenoir-Rhyne’s Asheville campus commencement for my Master of Arts in Writing degree at the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative (what a mouthful!), but I’m not quite a graduate. Not yet. I have an asterisk next to my name, meaning I lack six hours before I officially complete my degree on December […]
Read More →May 11, 2016
In anticipation of Saturday, I’m being a bit nostalgic and thought I’d post photos of my previous three graduations. The first one was 54 years ago. Funny that I graduated from a Lutheran high school, and now it’ll be a Lutheran university. I’ve come full circle and I’m not even Lutheran. (In case you can’t […]
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