“The clock has struck midnight.” My opening line from my commencement speech delivered one June evening (two? five? nine?) twelve (months?) years ago. (One question–where did the time go?) Commencement…
Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>
A chunk of pureed frozen okra caused me to squeeze back nostalgic tears. Long past its expiration date, this frozen cube of green vitamins had to be pitched in the…
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.” – George Bernard Shaw I find this quotation recorded in teenage girl bubble letters…
I think of myself as an urbanite. My earliest memories include frying an egg on the miraged surface of a Phoenix sidewalk, needing a new Care Bear from the neighborhood…
Things that scared me when I was a kid: spiders, heights, and E.T. Things that scare me as an adult: spiders, heights and E.T. (Yes, that creepy Extra-Terrestrial and not…
I checked out an audiobook from my library last week. Two minutes later, I rested it on the trunk of my car while I buckled my daughter in her car…