What’s in a name?

  Micawber MEANING: noun: An eternal optimist. ETYMOLOGY: After Wilkins Micawber, an incurable optimist in the novel David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. His schemes for making money never materialize, but he’s always hopeful that “something...
Twelfth Morn

Twelfth Morn

I hated to do it, but it needed to be done. I tossed out the final Christmas cookies, dipped pretzels, chex mix, and fudge. We had already eaten nearly all of the treats – and you can tell, because the pounds are all around me. Now, if I could only toss the...
Living Life as a Miracle at an Airport

Living Life as a Miracle at an Airport

Oh-kay. Recently there were miracle posts and airplane posts and the two themes combined in a flash – done! Wait, there’s more…this time we take you inside the airport terminal… We were returning from a trip to visit our families in the Midwest,...
Living Life as a Miracle: The eyes have it!

Living Life as a Miracle: The eyes have it!

I wrote about Einstein’s brain in a recent post, one of my pedantically-oriented writings (I ‘know stuff’ and like to share, but these sort of things don’t come up in friendly talk, so I bring it up in blog). Because of Einstein’s great...
Wired

Wired

I am wired differently than my husband, Larry. But that doesn’t mean that either is wrong or right – or assuredly male or female. Or that he’s bigger and better, though I affirm that he is. Or that either of us is left-brained/analytic vs...