Continued from Part 2 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.…
High School Spanish
My life might have taken quite a different turn had I pursued what I was really adept in High School.…
my life in dog-years
Every few weeks, my computer or my phone pops up an image I took “on this day” over the last…
relationships that last: lessons in communication, part 2
Continued from Part 1 why we do not listen The world is busy. Information pounds us from every direction. Because…
Making herself at home
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” James Herriot, author, James Herriot’s Cat Stories
wishes, rainbow kingdoms, and lost remotes
Grandchildren grow up a lot quicker than I would have imagined. In a matter of months, looping animated “Baby Shark”…
relationships that last: lesson in communication, part 1
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne, British poet,…
the way we all ought to go
My neighbor’s female Doberman died last weekend. Unlike my dogs Comet and Dexter last year, and her buddy Loki, a…
Tasks only women master
For only the second time in our two decades-plus of marriage, my wife needs her husband’s help with basic tasks…