Follow-up to Thanks-Giving Vibes

Follow-up to Thanks-Giving Vibes

Behold half of our merry gatherers for our Friendsgiving this year. The couple across the table from my husband and I are longtime friends who’ve hosted us for Thanksgiving for a dozen years. They allowed us to reciprocate because they’d recently returned...
I’m Thankful for Books

I’m Thankful for Books

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot, American academic and 21st president of Harvard University in his 1896 book, The Happy...
Life As a Miracle: Asics

Life As a Miracle: Asics

I’m back in physical therapy. I likely qualify as a lifer because I rehab injuries as well as attempt to prevent stuff. Like knee surgery. When I enter the large open therapy room, my PT stops what he’s doing – even treating another patient –...
Election Day

Election Day

My husband and I will awaken before dawn on our national election day. Our lives will improve in a couple of ways, for better rather than worse we pray. an ENT/surgeon will remove the two amorphous growths on my parathyroid, alleviating a long-standing issue with...
Main Character or Protagonist

Main Character or Protagonist

While you, Young Writer, may think the terms ‘main character’ and ‘protagonist’ are interchangeable and functionally the same, they are not. That’s what I believed until recently. I’ll help you change your understanding with...