Weddings and Commitment

I am fortunate today to be celebrating 32 years of marriage. Since it seems to me that fewer and fewer young people are choosing marriage these days, at least not without a trial run that involves living together for an unspecified, usually lengthy, period of time, perhaps I might have some advice to offer. Not because I am an expert on marriage. Far from it. But because I am, at least, able to say that I made a commitment, I have stuck to it, and so has my husband. And that has made all the difference. […]

By |2016-11-23T10:24:01-06:00June 20th, 2013|Health, Mind & Spirit, inside|Comments Off on Weddings and Commitment
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The Crew of the Lady Patricia

This is a tribute to the crew of the Lady Patricia. Most of them are gone. A few are still around. One of them is my dad. They represent a great generation of men and women who did their duty under difficult circumstances. Many paid the ultimate price and never returned. Many more brought home memories that haunt them still, especially in their dreams when the years melt away. This is their story, my dad's, that of the crew of the Lady Patricia, and the story of perhaps thousands like them.

By |2021-07-09T11:27:35-05:00September 9th, 1999|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on The Crew of the Lady Patricia
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A Random Act of Kindness c. 1945

The soldier can't remember what he had to eat that night, and he remembers little about the others who joined him. But he will never forget the stranger's act of kindness, which gave some World War II servicemen a warm welcome home and endured to help a veteran stand tall in his daughter's eyes.

By |2016-11-23T10:25:25-06:00April 14th, 1998|Random Inspiration|Comments Off on A Random Act of Kindness c. 1945
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Dangling the Wrong Carrot

Fresh from a fervent assembly designed to pump up the sales force, my 10-year-old son got in the car after school and declared his new goal in life, to be Top Seller . . .

By |2016-11-23T10:25:46-06:00October 3rd, 1997|Miscellany|Comments Off on Dangling the Wrong Carrot
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Tap Shoes

How much now I wish I would have offered him some small bit of encouragement that night, no matter how awkward I felt about it.

By |2013-05-23T12:29:47-05:00August 19th, 1997|Miscellany|Comments Off on Tap Shoes
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