Living Life as a Miracle: Halloween

Living Life as a Miracle: Halloween

The Grim Reaper was grim: he’d forgotten his scythe and here we were – all the way across town, past 20-30 stoplights, most of which had glowered red, holding us hostage for 1 1/2 minutes each. His grandly planned party entrance was despoiled. Such is...
Lands’ End

Lands’ End

It’s the season: catalogue season. You can tell that the economy is back: back in the saddle, back in the box…back in the use-your-charge-card mode. Nearly 100 catalogues have clogged our mailbox in the past month – yes, I counted. I’m a little...
Prescient lack of character

Prescient lack of character

Did you hear that I published a book? Seriously, everyone who knows me knew I would – I have a ‘completion thing’. The term stems from one of the few movie dialogue lines I can recite -“I don’t have a completion thing” –...
Living life as a miracle: Universal Signs

Living life as a miracle: Universal Signs

Hi y’all – did you miss me? I was on a cruise to visit Japan, Korea, and China for 2 1/2 weeks, +/- a day due to the International Date Line. Nope. Well, how could you miss me? – I had blog posts cached. (which reminds me of STASHES – have you...
Lemon tree very pretty…

Lemon tree very pretty…

When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me, “Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.” “Don’t put your faith in love, my boy”, my father said to me, “I fear you’ll find that love is like the lovely lemon...
Encore Career

Encore Career

Writing is my ‘encore career’, a phrase I discovered today on a Baby Boomer ‘life transitions’ site. Applause, please, from the audience!!!! I’ve written thousands of clinical reports…and some of them contained fabulous fiction,...