Our mother died last year before reaching her 86th birthday. She didn’t die from COVID but the awful avalanche of complications that arose while trying to arrange… Read more “High Horse”

I refinished a farmhouse medicine cabinet for my parents decades ago. It came from their barn museum of auction prizes. The inside backing looked like ragged slats… Read more “med cabinet”

Many good speeches focus on one BIG idea and this is what I’d like to focus on now. Your reputation is what savvy people say is happening… Read more “repYOU”

The Captain Kangaroo Show went on the air just a few months after I was born in 1954. Actor Bob Keeshan wore a bulky jacket with enormous… Read more “Mr. Green Jeans Wasn’t Black and White”

gate open or gate shut free range hens eat and peck swallow everything in the yard moving or static bug gravel foods coops are for night predation… Read more “quan(tity) dumb”

Middle school students live in a nether land between childhood and adulthood and its inhabitants are functionally “Tweeners”. Teaching middle school students can be like working in… Read more “lay bells”

Zen Buddhism promotes “Shoshin, beginner’s mind” as a way to expand awareness. The word “beginner” labels the unskilled novice and it’s assumed that nobody willingly wants to… Read more “Beginner’s mind”

Behind cuteness, a child sees clearly what adults smirk at. Oversize heads dangle down arms. Each “my” is either an opportunity or a misunderstanding about what can… Read more “my(ha)nd”

For most of my life, I occasionally pretended toward a Fire Ceremony to sanctify the phenomenon of burning. Like many momentous things considered commonplace, fires were merely… Read more “A(we)LL”

At the Sound of Orient underneath an Osprey nest walked a seeker in rounded stones looking for shattered glass polished smooth by waves rolled over and over… Read more “Ailenor”