Something Good Here

I’m sitting here at the dining room table, looking out at the snow that has already accumulated (see shadows at bottom of the doors), watching the birds furiously come and go amid this blizzard …. thinking “At some point, I’m going to have to go out and shovel all of...

Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions

I first noticed it when I was ten or so:  Every New Year’s Day, my dad would take a sheet of graph paper and across the top, each line represented a day and along the side, each line represented his weight.  His end goal was always to get his weight down to 185 lbs. …...

There Is No Worst Thing

  School started this past week for some of my grandchildren in Virginia.  I know it seems awfully early for us, but 180 days is 180 days, and they will be out by the end of May. There were lots of significant changes for them, and I called to see how their first...