Running is one of my favorite means of stress management. It’s a time of physically “burning” off any negative emotions, it’s a bonding time between my dog and me, and, most importantly, it’s a time of reflection, a time for me to be alone with my maker. And this...
It was the very next day, and it was the coldest day so far this year, with temperatures, considering the wind chill, dipping down as low as –27º C. “You’re crazy!” I muttered to myself as I turned off the main road to run into the cemetery. “You should have learned...
HTML clipboard There were NO footprints in the snow today. And little wonder! The previous morning we had received 4 inches of the wettest, slushiest snow possible, then it warmed up to a few degrees above freezing, and the precipitation turned to rain. After raining...
I stared sadly at my Golden Retriever. Her normal 18-month-old spunk was missing today. In fact, it had been missing for the past several days. Oh, she trotted along beside me on our run all right, but instead of charging out huge figure eights among the trees and...
It was a deep royal purple. As I stared at this little stress dot—clinically called a “Bio-dot”—I marveled. This tiny invention actually changes colors with fluctuations of tension levels. It is black when you are stress, and then it changes to gradations of brown,...
Only one car now stood between us and the Austrian/Yugoslavian border, but I knew that our wait was far from over. The Yugoslavian border personnel were already emptying its trunk, rummaging through its suitcases and ransacking its food baskets. Nothing was left...
There was just one. It dropped out of the corner of my eye, and before I could reach up to wipe it away, it had already coursed down my cheek. Where had it come from, this single tear?In completion of an exercise given out at our home Bible study group, I had been...