Over the past two weeks we’ve had the opportunity to overindulge in the absorption of the verbosity-fest that each of our major political parties offers us every four years. Though, due to our new Coronavirus world, the format was untraditional, the menu of partisan and often hypocritical platitudes served up […]

This week’s inspirational tale was penned by the prolific English author of children’s books, Lilian Fanny Gask (1865–1942). Like many writers of this genre, her tales were often embedded with moral meaning. The Two Gifts is no exception, it gives emphasis to the reader that it is not just the act of helping […]

To borrow from Robert Heinlein’s title, in 2020, amid competing COVID concerns and fears, rioting and mayhem in our streets, and complete animus and inertia among our political leaders and parties, we all seem to be Strangers in a Strange Land. It appears to many that the societal bonds that ensure […]

With a myriad of distractions this week drawing me in a many directions, I decided to reach into my dusty vault of past postings to fulfil my shared Inspiration commitment. I settled on this delightful children’s fable that has its roots in Germany and was first sent as my Friday […]