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Every year, mid-December, a few of my siblings and I always accompanied Dad on a hunt for the perfect Christmas tree. First, he’d drive to the various tree lots in the city and we’d read the hand painted plywood signs that advertised the prices. Then we’d return to the lot with the best deal.  Climbing…

It is easy to get lost in the shuffle, the crowds and cacophony of life. After all, we are one of a billion other people that populate the surface of this earth. Yet, John Donne says in one of his poems entitled, No Man is an Island; “No man is an island, entire of itself,…

I appreciate the comments and insights I sometimes receive from my audience. For instance, one of my readers responded to, Why Bother to Noticing Shame. They said, “You cannot change what you do not see.” This led me to think, how do we see what we need to change?       Never Too Old…

There were times in my childhood when an adult reprimanded by saying, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” This expression made me feel small and at the same time, a little bewildered. I was never quite sure how I’d failed. I understood that the adult who’d called me to stand before them and take the…