This summer I’ve read two memoirs — stories that have rocked me at my core. Life histories hard to comprehend, difficult to identify with and yet they happened to women who are like me in many ways. As I closed each book, I was...
Read MoreLearning Keeps You Sharp Poppa, my father’s father, was a 5’8” frail-framed giant of a man. With an insatiable desire for more knowledge, he was always reading. Poppa came to visit me (when I was 19) in my eight foot by...
Read MorePerception Skews Communication I have a friend who is terrified of people. He is great with computers, but people just plain scare him. On the other hand, my mother loves people. She assumes everyone wants to talk to her....
Read More
It had been six years since he started drinking his pain away. With each passing year he become...
Read MoreLegos are the best. When my boys were young, we had legos everywhere. My favorite thing to do with them was build houses, airplanes, tractors, people, castles, dinosaurs, star wars fighters. It’s so fascinating to connect...
Read More
