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When you are old…

Some of the best lines ever written about love and aging: “How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty, with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”                 William...

Bones

When the mother of a family was placed on a strict diet by her physician, her husband decided that it would be a good time to change the whole family’s eating habits. No red meat. No heavy gravies. No sugary deserts. Most fish, chicken, vegetables and fruit. The first...

The Sounds of Home

July 4, 2015 I am in the middle of a significant relocation – a cross-continent, cross-border relocation – that involves major upheaval, reams of paperwork, long periods of waiting, and unintended contemplation about the meaning of “home.” I’ve become accustomed...

Good Specimens

I am always looking for new ways to introduce someone. Here’s an idea: In the 1930s there was a play, made into a movie, called “The Green Pastures.” In the play the archangel Gabriel is depicted as a hothead who is fed up with humanity. Ready to blow his horn…...

Our Stance

The newest member of the country club was taking his initiatory round of golf with the club’s officers. He was nervous about making a good impression. He teed up the ball, spread his feet apart, fixed his stance, and took a healthy swing. The golf club removed about a...