Eat the cookie? Buy the shoes? Oh, yeah!

Joyce Meyer, one of my favorite authors and evangelists, has a book titled "Eat the Cookie. Buy the Shoes." Friday, September 03, 2010 More...

Life's circle

Families, by the very nature of our earthly existence, expand and contract. We cannot doubt it; it is written on our hearts with each birth and each death. Friday, August 27, 2010 More...

Legends of the fall and then some

Much as I love April, May and early June and the internal fidgeting that comes from waiting for springtime in the Rockies and other myths of nature to occur, there's something about this period between mid-August and mid-October that sings solace to my heart. Friday, August 20, 2010 More...

First comes love, then comes marriage... then 50 years

In the 1960 photograph, groom Harold James Thomas was a dapper Buddy Holly look-alike in his white tuxedo, black bowtie and thick, horn-rimmed glasses. Friday, August 13, 2010 More...

Snowbird in a Hamster suit

You should know this decision of mine to move south for the winter was not made lightly nor without a great deal of prayer. Friday, August 06, 2010 More...

And then we were struck by lightning

When I was a fresh-faced coed at the University of Denver, confident that my fellow bead-wearing, bell-bottomed, peace-and-love hippie buds and I would save the world and be artistes at the same time, my roommate Barbara freed me from any delusions of joining the road show of "Hair" (with all that implies). Bluntly, she told me, "You have the worst voice I've ever heard." Thus ended my pursuit of a singing career. Friday, July 30, 2010 More...