The handwriting on the envelope attached to the flowers looked familiar in the nearly perfect script of an English teacher.Now, over the years I had sent (or taken, myself, in my childhood) many foil-scrunched bouquets of flowers to teachers. And I'd probably even...
Earlier this summer, our daughters sent us on a three-night cruise to the Bahamas for our 30th wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful time, but an experience the second night of our trip revealed a lot about human relationships.We were in our stateroom when we...
While writing about the seven seven heavenly virtues, I was a little surprised the virtue of honesty is not on the "official list" passed down from the 6th century. You'll see why I wanted to deal with this, as it certainly is a worthy virtue to consider.I recently...
I should have known better. I had an invitation to participate in a local "celebrity" spelling bee hosted by a radio station, conducted for the sole purpose of getting people to the home show at the mall. I think it was the letter referring to me as a celebrity that...
Several years ago, I wrote about my greenthumb neighbor, Letha Townsend, and what she had taught me about gardening. She has now gone to that great garden in the sky. Surely one of the more common (if not cliche) descriptions of heaven or an afterlife includes the...
Every Christmas has a moment - or moments if you are lucky - when the spirit of the season wraps itself around your heart and you feel you have experienced just a little of what Christmas is all about.Two Minutes Later: Sometimes you have to look hard for that magic...
Reader responses from my Another Way article in February on "Racism and Backlash" were numerous, upsetting, heartening, and instructional. So here are opinions, insights and personal experiences with racism that we can all learn from.A 40-year-old woman wrote about...