We don’t have a burning bush in our neighborhood but we do have a singing bush. We have a large very thickly branched bush that even without foliage can provide shelter for birds. A large family of sparrows has decided to winter inside its mass...
The weather app on my phone said it was 17 degrees with strong gusty winds from the northwest. I must have been crazy thinking myself rugged and hardy. So out the door we went, my dog and I. The first half mile wasn’t bad...
I mentioned last week that we stopped at a Dollar Store and I bought a box of peanut brittle. If it had cost more than a dollar I most likely would not have purchased it. I hadn’t eaten peanut brittle in decades. Since then I...
It was a beautiful and disturbing sight. There was a layer of snow decorating our patio and rhododendrons. Giant soft fluffy flakes were gently falling. A gorgeous male cardinal was accenting the scene. One would have to be blind not to be stunned by him. ...
Well, it’s over. The 1.6 billion dollar lottery has three winners. Millions of people, who bought a ticket, can now stop dreaming. (For now.) For two dollars, less than the cost of a small (excuse me – Venti) Starbucks coffee, people had dreams and hopes. ...
It was so cute it was amazing. She was a tiny Chinese Vanna White or better yet like the models on the Price Is Right. We were at the grocery store and kept meeting this petite little girl and her mother because we were going...
We do not hear with our ears anymore than we see with our eyes. Our ears and eyes are receptors that transmit received signals to our brains. Our brains then interpret and configure those signals into sounds or pictures. Now comes the scary part. Each...
So I made the offhand comment that Eve picked and ate a mango and sin began. I immediately came under siege. A woman pounced on me with all the weight of tradition. Didn’t I know it was an apple? I couldn’t resist. I asked her...
Another week has begun and some of us on such occasions feel like an NFL quarterback surrounded by three hundred pound monsters whose only goal is to knock us down. Our entire team is depending on us to not only pinpoint our effort with precision...
My wife gave me a Fitbit for Christmas. It is a small black band worn around my wrist. Not only does it tell me the time and date, it also continually records my heart rate, the number of steps I take, the calories I burn,...