I Bought a MoonPie Last night I was thinking about the way I eat. Like most other health-conscious people, I stupidly try to eat healthy food. But last evening, logic took hold of my brain and I began to look at my eating habits in a more cosmic way. What the heck am I doing to myself eating… Read More »
Looking for MoonPie? Sorry about that. Please click here to read MoonPie It’s Okay to Be a Prune “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” ~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) I was… Read More »
Today was a rainy, unseasonably chilly day in May. I waited most of the day for the rain to stop so that I could take my daily walk. I’ve always liked to walk but just in the past couple months I’ve become an avid walker; motivated by recent health problems and spurred on by my Georgian friend, I… Read More »
It all started with a spoon. I know that now. It took me decades to figure it out. I have fought a losing battle with fat my entire life. From a chubby junior high boy who wore “Huskies”, to the rotund man I became later in life — I’m a fat man and I’m sure I’ll always be.… Read More »
Things We Can’t See The wind howls from the south and rattles the windows. I watch the storm and revel in its power, surrendering to its majesty, and admiring its beauty and strength, I sit mesmerized by the window. It occurs to me that no one really knows where the wind comes from or to where it goes.… Read More »
Thinking About Crocuses I don’t have much of a life, I guess. I’ve been waiting all winter to see some form of life spring forth from the cold, almost-still-frozen earth. Normally, the first things to spring forth are the crocuses, and most years these hearty little flowers start poking their heads up through the hard, brittle soil near… Read More »