Ever notice?
This time of year, the stars seem especially bright.
It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth than they are in the summertime.
Continue readingEver notice?
This time of year, the stars seem especially bright.
It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth than they are in the summertime.
Continue readingWe waited in silence ten years or more for the bell to ring. Then in the pre-dawn darkness of a late-Advent morning it tolled, at a notably non-liturgical hour.
Continue readingI’ve been inside The Joint often enough not to ever expect an inviting welcome. But yesterday’s approach was something else.
Continue reading“Well, this is weird,” I said to myself…because there was absolutely no one else in the room with me, watching a recent World Cup match on TV.
Continue readingIn my haste, I was sorely tempted to do something truly foolish the other morning.
Continue readingTo their delight, the Grandsons took in an unexpected lesson in static electricity the other day.
Continue readingPerhaps not surprisingly, our matriarch’s 95th birthday celebration morphed into a time of “family archeology” the other day.
Continue readingFor a moment or two, I had the disturbing feeling that I’d been forced to time-travel – transported against my will to “caveman days.”
Continue readingI think I might be forgiven…for resenting this latest attempt at extortion.
Continue readingOur “porch pumpkin” didn’t quite make it to Halloween.
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