A slow, steady rain has fallen in the past couple of days. The dust has settled. The grass is lush. I’m excited because now I don’t have to water the new trees we planted – yay! soul thirst Without timely rains, the ground dries up and eventually nothing grows. Our …
I’ve been trying to meet a friend for coffee for months but our schedules are like trains running on different tracks. Numerous times we’ve set a date and then had to cancel. Isn’t there a unique kind of busy during mid-life? a time for everything under the sun It’s a …
Something that happened to me 45 years ago still hurts. I was swimming at an outdoor pool with my brother in East Africa one afternoon. An underwater light had been smashed and the glass had not been cleaned out, slicing my foot open. The clinic my mother took me to …