Do you remember learning the days of the week when you were a little kiddo? Then you got to school and learned how to spell them. That Wed-nes-day was a tough one. Since that time, I have lived my life by those seven days of the week, but the day that has gotten more mileage than I like to admit is Someday. Try as I may, I cannot find that eighth day on any calendar, even though the Beatles sang…
When you were a kiddo, did your grandma or favorite aunt ever send you a check for your birthday or Christmas? HOLY DOLLAR BILLS! What was the first thing you did? Well, once you jumped up and down and squealed about having some money of your very own to do with as you pleased, you probably started bugging your mom or dad to take you to the bank. You could hardly wait to cash that check. I moved away from…
Well, there’s thirteen hundred and fifty-two Guitar pickers in Nashville— John Sebastian, The Lovin’ Spoonful If you remember that song, welcome to my generation! This morning I was thinking about diet books — THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM!!! — and that line from the song, Nashville Cats, surfaced from my memory. I wonder how many diet books are out there. Every week a new one or several of them pop up on my Amazon page, so I’m sure it’s…
Grey and Yang dance it out. Stephie writes it out. Here’s a little before and after story. Yesterday I got up with things to do. Set up my planner and get my info organized. Start that course I had been putting off for days, no, weeks. I really, really needed to do these things but I kept running out of day before I got to them. I looked at the clock: 2:09. I was sitting at my desk looking at…
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King. The words of his “I Have a Dream” speech are etched deeply into the annals of this nation’s history. He had a dream for which he worked tirelessly day in, day out,…