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  • The Moments Will Find You!

        Are humbuggers as much a part of Christmas as sleigh bells and carols? Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is as perennial as Christmas itself. So too Dr. Seus' How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and John Grisham's Skipping Christmas. All of these vehicles attempt to circumvent Christmas and all of them fail.   Is…

  • 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…

  • The Lighthouse Stairs

        Looking up or down? You… …today, looking up or down?   (That's the short version of today's post. Here is the long one.)   If you're feeling good today, happy and cheerful, be sure to share that somehow, because you never know how much a heartfelt smile might mean to someone, how just…

  • Fishing, Reading…

      On a warm January day off, sitting on the beach, enjoying the skimmers, pelicans and gulls, and a family fishing nearby.   In Vietnam each seaside village has a secret fish sauce recipe.   Reading Vietnamese-American, Andrew X Pham's Catfish and Mandala – a very brave piece of storytelling about  one man's search for…

  • MOM?

    Are you my mother?