Living Life as a Miracle: Purple Hearts

Living Life as a Miracle: Purple Hearts

A dozen purple hearts dance around my wrist alongside a sapphire as blue as my eyes, which not like the middle Eastern evil eye amulet, thank heaven. Amethyst beauties that wouldn’t bedazzle if it hadn’t been for a miracle, a coincidence of God. When...
It’s about Time

It’s about Time

You know the holiday gift season is approaching when…your mailbox is stuffed with catalogues and the papers are filled with ads. Let me be the first to say: Merry Charge Card Season to you! Yesterday’s papers – three are delivered before dawn to our...
Time

Time

I have an awesome internal clock. It’s wowed family, friends, and strangers unerringly for years. I could have won sucker bets in bars if I chose. I ascribe it to 40 years of being a speech-language pathologist, where life is regimented into clinical sessions...
Bye-bye Twinkies

Bye-bye Twinkies

It was 10:00 in the morning. My husband was away; we didn’t need any groceries, but I felt compelled to go to the store. I bought bananas, milk, and cereal although I’d already eaten breakfast after my morning walk. The store had a tabletop display right in the middle...