“Maybe time running out is a gift.” ~Jason Isbell, If We Were Vampires Most days I feel like my 30-year-old self. Then I catch a glimpse in the mirror and remember I was born half a century ago. In many ways I am so much better than I ever was, but my physical appearance […]
“One must arrange that one’s creative life has a consistent fire under it…without the fire, our great ideas, our original thoughts, our yearnings and longings remain uncooked, and everyone is unfulfilled.” ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With The Wolves Fire has been around for millions of years. But it’s only recently in […]
“It’s the holiDAYS, not the holiMONTHS. Don’t let your foot off the gas right now!” ~An Instagram meme that annoys me I’ve never been a fan of the #riseandgrind culture celebrated by the Tony Robbinses and Rachel Hollises of the world. Or the relentless, self-absorbed weight loss programs forced down the throats of anyone […]
Q: What do you get if you cross a sheepdog with a jelly? A: The collie-wobbles. ~my favorite British Christmas cracker joke Our story is set in Jolly Old England, December 1992, the year I was studying with a small gaggle of students from Centre College. If I had learned anything about England in my […]
Last week, I wrote about my emotional connection to Judy Garland’s version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The lyrics in her version, written for the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, read, “Someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow. Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow” and always […]
“Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours before we were trying to kill!” ~John Ferguson, 1st Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment “How marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was. Thus Christmas, the celebration of love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time.” […]
