Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other. –St. Paul That was from the readings in church yesterday, and it echoes a little note at the pool that someone put on the bulletin board reminding swimmers not to say mean things, rather to be encouraging...Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
I had big plans for my week off of assembly duties, and with Chip away, and the family all well and not in need of much help with anything, and no obits and no deadlines. I am working on a TV show in development with NBC, but that seems to mostly consist of texts and...Nov 14, 2017 | Blog
I once tried to write a column for Woman’s Day titled “Decorating with Dead Animals” but the idea was rejected. I think the editor thought I was joking. I never intended to display animal antlers, horns, hides, and even a head, in my home. I argued...Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
“The issue is not whether to stand firm or compromise but how to express our firmness. When we express it with poise rather than rudeness, not only are we truer to our better selves, but we infuse our dissent with a power it wouldn’t have otherwise. To...Nov 11, 2017 | Blog
Poet Mary Oliver says praying, writing, creating, living your life in a meaningful, courageous, and as with most writers, a public way– we stick our hearts out– doesn’t have to be the “blue iris” and that “a few small stones”...Nov 1, 2017 | Blog
“People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” –Alice Walker, The Color Purple My week has gotten away from me, what with hours spent prepping for and acting in the...
