This Thing Called Life

I used to think that it would be so cool to be all grown up. I thought I’d get to be so smart. I pictured

Aunt Minnie, Mr. Charlie & Me Well it’s that time of year again and for the life of me I can’t seem to remember what

There’s something to be said for the saying “with age comes wisdom”. I’m not saying that age automatically brings wisdom, but if you’re paying attention

I’ve always been an outdoors kind of person.  Maybe because I grew up in a crowded project apartment with too many people and not enough

What if nobody liked me? What if these people (who mostly didn’t look like me) were mean and hateful towards me. I had had plenty

I’ve been reading a book Edited by Nikki Giovanni called “Grand Mothers” (poems, reminiscences and short stories about the keepers of our traditions). I selected

Music has always been an integral part of my life. From earliest days until now, music courses through every dimension of my daily existence.  My

These are some crazy times we are living in. Being pretty much quarantined for five months really gives you time to think.  It also has

It was a Saturday morning and I was determined to get my run in early, way before every dog in the neighborhood was dragged to

As I promised, this is the second part of the story. I don’t want you to think that, contrary to what I had almost convinced

Let me preface this by saying that this will be the first of a two part story……. Somewhere between then and now I took up

“Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.”….M. Scott Momaday Maybe it’s just the overall climate these days that’s got me