Tribute to a Father

It's my Father's birthday today, August 24, 2017.  He would have been 88.  He passed away 8 years ago on June 17, 2009.  There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of him.  I was encouraged by a writer friend (www.readsuzette.com) to submit the story of my Father's experience of an …

The Tail of a Whale

Some folks may surmise that I am getting ready to offer up an exaggerated whale of a tale, but I seriously wish to recite a tale about the tail of a whale. Climbing to the top of a Pacific coast bluff on a late Friday afternoon, undeterred by winds picking up, I focused my sights …

The Blank Screen

  A big life change for me is looming.  I am set to retire in a few months and I am having bouts of anxiety about these changes.  I'm more of a swooning bundle of trepidation than of grace these days, with goose bumps rippling up and down my limbs. People tell me that once I do …

Slowing it down

 I recently heard someone say in a self-help YouTube video that she "woke some people up, but it was too early for them and they crashed and burned".   Or words to that effect.  Something struck me about that statement and I immediately responded internally that no one can take full responsibility for waking up others.  Perhaps a …