Today is the last day President Barack Obama will serve as the President of the United States. Some of us are marching this Saturday to celebrate our Constitution and Bill of Rights, to show solidarity in support of a free press and all the other rights we enjoy as Americans. … [Read more…]
Hello, my friends, acquaintances, and interested parties. Today is a triple-header. 1. This website’s first anniversary 2. My birthday (shhh) 3. The jump-off-another-cliff creation: New Wings Press! Anniversary celebration kudos go to my website designer, Mary Ann de Stefano, owner of Mad About Words. Her creativity helped make this site a reality and a continuing home for … [Read more…]
Happy New Year – 2016 – to all you blog subscribers and also to any visitors to my website! This post is dedicated to you. Without readers … well, I’d keep blogging, but it might not be as much fun. Thank you for your comments, insights, and remarks of all kinds last year. … [Read more…]
‘Tis the season to be … jolly, merry, generous, truth-telling, extra loving, and whatever else makes for a better world. If that’s what it’s all about, I say, what’s good for this season is good for all seasons. Christmas in Germany A few years ago my husband, Hoyt, and I toured Germany in the spring, not during … [Read more…]
Don’t know about you, but I’ve been focusing on trying to be more thankful for what freedoms and joys we actually have … especially for beauty when I see it or hear it or feel it these days. Which has prompted me to wonder, thanks to a famous poem, about beauty’s relationship to truth. … [Read more…]