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  • Your Invitation to the Feast

        An open gate, an open door – it's inviting. Will you come to the feast? Or will you say, "Oh, I wasn't invited." or "I don't have anyone to go with."   You're invited. Everyone comes alone. The feast begins when you wake up and it never ends.   Coming?    

  • Can a Color Save Your Soul?

        What's your soul's favorite color?   Blue beach, blue sky, blue water. There are so many blues.   Can a color really save your soul?    

  • The Rain Doesn’t Need Us

        Rainy days at the beach – they're challenging for the shop owners in this tourist town, but what can you do? Complain?   As kids we would complain, then play cards and laugh and complain some more. Now we might walk in between the raindrops, enjoying the wind and the wild sea, or…

  • Get There Safely

        This is the time of year to be gentle with everyone you meet. The guy who just cut you off in traffic might have gotten some really bad news, and be so distracted that he forgot his manners. Or the young woman on her cell phone who doesn't seem to realize that she…

  • In The Middle of a Storm

      When you are right in the middle of a storm, it's all there is – wind, rain, noise, thunder, lightening. You feel as scattered as the sand that relentlessly blows away and away.   From the air it looks quite different. Blue sky above, sun shining and billowy clouds below. If you are in…

  • A Good Book Can Help

        It is so much fun to spend a day reading, even if it is loaded with guilt, it is pure pleasure! Writers of fiction are magicians who conjure up characters and places and whole lives of people we believe exist. We root for them, or we want to know them, or we are…

  • Cultivate Your Sense of Humor

      When I lived in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, and was ready to launch my little daysailer for the very first time, (not pictured here) I went to the Harbor Master thinking that I might have to pay a ramp fee. I asked him if I needed anything to launch and he answered,…

  • Good Morning

        Good Morning!   or Good Morning, is that coffee you have there?   or   Good morni…no, don't put the umbrella back now, no, I'm in here…gotta go!        

  • Out of Your Element

        Have you ever felt like you were out of your element? These two unlikely tourists know the feeling. They were found on the steps of a museum in Key West, Florida, and from the looks of them their cab couldn't come fast enough.   Sometimes the holidays can push you out of your…

  • Believe in Something

      Graffiti, love it or hate it.   There was a secret Chinese restaurant in downtown Baltimore years ago that was on the second floor of a narrow brick building, down the street from Shermann's Bookstore. When you gave your order to the waitress, she would immediately call it back to the kitchen in Chinese, nice…