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Walking into our memories

Our lives intertwine with friends and family. We choose the friends, sometimes by geographical vicinity, sometimes by group participation, and sometimes by career. Sometimes having friends is by trial and error. Relationships can offer an uplifting experience or sometimes make a toxic mix within our lives. Thus the trial and error. Family relationships add the […]

Bluegrass is in the air

I pulled into the gates of the festival grounds and before I pulled even a few feet beyond the entrance, I could hear the musical notes flowing on the wind from the distance of the trees. I could see people carrying their guitars, banjos and other instruments along the dirt road as I slowly made […]

Those darn socks

I turned on the television and found a movie of interest. I set a stack of holey socks beside me along with my sewing kit. I turned the sock inside out. I slipped the light bulb up inside and positioned it near the heel. I threaded the white thread into the needle and tied a […]

Passing days can be more

Often times in life we fold over the calendar page only to see a date that marks a memory, an anniversary, a birthday, which we may or may not wish to experience again. We mark our lives by milestones – graduations, weddings, funerals, and all that happens in between. I recently read a wonderful article […]

A quarter saved

I placed the quarter in the hand of Uncle Sam and hit its trigger and the coin dropped down into the open bag below clicking to the bottom of the bank. It was a fun to save in a similar way my grandparent’s generation had. While it taught me the tendency to save throughout my […]

TV’s “In the Heat of the Night” hits 35

We mark our lives in time by the passage of time. We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries and if we should hit longevity in our experiences, it generally involves many other people acknowledging the moment in our live. In the United States, collectively, we just passed a marker in television history. The TV police drama series […]

The Spirit within

Have you ever been in a room, and someone walks in and with your body you feel in your center mass of your chest a quiver. As they draw closer to you, the disturbance within increases in its frequency of movement. Of course, exposing this in a public situation would be uncomfortable, so instead you […]

Will I find it?

There are times I find myself looking for something that had eluded me. In childhood, one of my favorite Saturday morning shows was “The Land of the Lost.” In the story line, humans fell through a crack in space and time to the period and place where they had to exist with dinosaurs. I am […]

Where oh where are you tonight?

That’s a line from a comedy skit I heard so many times, I can still sing it by heart from the long-running TV show – “Hee Haw.” “Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I’d found true love. You met another and th… you were gone.” February […]

Is it a God thing?

Whenever I find myself facing an uncertain future, whether it’s in work or my personal life, ultimately, I always find myself praying for Divine intervention. I ask for guidance. I ask for forgiveness. I ask for patience. I ask for inspiration. It always seems I am asking Him for something. But seldom am I thanking […]