Perception

Noises that were probably a couple of firecrackers disturbed Dexter Saturday night. He spent a few minutes trying to curl…

Sesame Street generation

As a white child in the early 1970s, I experienced little of what the black (or brown or other) community…

Lessons from D-Day

Seventy-six years ago, more than 150, 000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy or parachuted in from the…

walking with God and my dog is preferable to throwing bricks

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war…

the vaccine for injustice

12 Hatred stirs up conflict,     but love covers over all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12 (New International Version) As a white man well…

sleeping dogs

I have been thinking about a lot of science fiction shows that featured “suspended animation” or “hibernation” – characters who…

dog daze

I am not sure what it says about my dogs’ instincts, but creatures in our neighborhood “wildlife habitat” – bunnies…

Yucca me not

The worldwide sheltering-in-place has me restlessly online more than usual. This is all part of research as a blogger. I…

for love or Monet

There are things you do for Love. Some you may do because it is practical or necessary.