The Husband Who Was To Mind the House

I’ve spent this week “batching it.” My much better half was tending to one of our real estate investments in Alabama while I assumed to role of taking care of our home and myself. It was a complete reversal of our former lives wherein I was primarily responsible for taking […]

We Know Too Much But Understand Too Little

Every once in a while the external world can overwhelm us with both its marvels and its mayhem. On the one hand, the age of the internet affords us access to infinite knowledge at the touch of a keyboard. And yet as we immerse ourselves in an endless morass of […]

The Magic Mill

I suppose that one of the commonalities of our aging process is our desire to be young again. More and more frequently, I must confess, I find myself remembering some aspect of my youthful prowess and thinking, “If I could only be young again armed with the wisdom of my […]

How Five Little Angels Lost Their Wings

As we travel from one year to the next, the sights we see and the events that unfold, surround, and impact us change; some are positive and some are negative; some profound and others mundane. Whatever the new year brings, the angels that dwell within us will guide our attitude […]