Mid-September before the first frost, I’m sitting under an oak tree by the lake, the mosquitoes are ravenous.  The nuts drop like hail on my exposed parts…arms, legs, bounce off a picnic table like ping-pong balls at summer camp.  I will accept these annoyances if it means that/… Read full post »

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“He’s forgotten how to swallow his food,” my father told me yesterday when he called. “They’ve put Grandpa on an all liquid diet… it won’t be long now.”… Read full post »

The case of a Lakota/Anishinabe man, Leonard Peltier, is an embarrassing display of racial injustice in America. As we are promoting human rights and democracy around the world, this Native man has been falsely imprisoned since 1974. To add insult to the injured justice system, the Peltier/… Read full post »

 
Acedia.  An ancient word used by desert monks to explain destructive pulls away from their monotonous lives.  These internal pulls and pushes, voices if you will, told them that their lives of work, prayer, and introspection were meaningless. 

Acedia, sloth… Read full post »

Well, 8 deaths in 3 months must be some kind of a record or something. My beloved great-uncle kicked off the chain of events, followed by two friends from South Dakota, then my brother-in-law, grandfather, husband’s grandfather, and my father’s life-long friend. Finally, the/… Read full post »

In the new age of Obama, let’s focus on a shared solution in the battle of mass inoculations rather than floundering with bickering and hopeless division. Pro-vaccine folks want full participation in order to/… Read full post »

                My grandparents lived on this property for 63 years.  Nine months ago their yard light went out.  Without that lonely light, on moonless nights, their property is completely black.  My grandpa promised/… Read full post »

There it was – screeching down on the car. Going 70 mph on I-94 we almost hit the largest owl I had seen in years. Its wingspan had to be nearly five feet because it’s form took up the entire windshield. The owl’s oversized head and shape was… Read full post »