Who’s Needy? Practice Closer Encounters
Who is the needy one? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. Take a closer look. The main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. – Barbara Brown Taylor…
Read moreYou Have a Safety Net. Take the Risk.
Is This Safe? Here was another lighthouse. This one was on the Canadian side of our border. We’d been going into several lighthouses in Maine, all interesting, all unique. Why not…
Read moreUnexplainable Love in Any Language
I log on to complete my Spanish lesson in Duolingo. I attempt a lesson every day, even though progress seems painfully slow. But in another tab, I see a note…
Read moreAfter Death, More Life
As if on cue, the mother died, too. Exactly two weeks after her son. We lost our friend Stan on March 15. He first went to the hospital for a…
Read moreKeep Out? Not Always
The writing on the wall said keep out. But there was more to the story. Isn’t there always?
Read moreNo Dead End Here
Meet Charles. This was once his granny’s house. Charles grew up playing around these trees in Panama City. Now this was all his. Until Hurricane Michael tried to blow it…
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