It’s Too Late Now They said it was suicide, but I knew it wasn’t. Lilly would have never taken her own life. She was too close to God for that. I’ll never forget the day she died. I’ll never forget the paramedics, the sirens, the ambulance and rescue squad truck descending upon her house on that late-summer… Read More »
Let’s Celebrate Melons Those of you living in big and sophisticated cities will be astonished to learn that we who live in more-or-less rural areas of America, get all worked up about summer festivals. It may seem sad to you, even pathetic, but it is true. So far, this summer, in my neck-of-the-woods, we’ve had the Cherry… Read More »
Andrew It doesn’t seem that long ago since I last passed Andrew on the hiking path. But it’s been years since we met and years since I last saw him. And I am not sure, exactly, why I’m thinking about him today. Well, I guess I do. Today would have been his 85th birthday. It still may be,… Read More »
Where Your Treasure Lies… “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be a better place, because I was important in the life of a child.” (changed from the original quotation from “Within… Read More »
Summer Reflections Where I live, summers are not measured by the calendar so much as by holidays. Summer begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. The mid-point is marked by the Fourth of July. The calendar does not agree of course. Summer, according to “calendarians” (is that a word?) begins on or about June 21… Read More »
You Say It’s Your Birthday… Happy Birthday, Darcy! Some of you know her as EB, some of you know her as Darcy, and most of you know she’s a very special lady. She is the one who makes sure that everyone every order gets filled, and everyone with a computer problem who has a Cloudeight… Read More »