How the Light Gets In, Pat Schneider’s latest book, convinces me to take my writing to a deeper level. My intention to confine this activity to a journal devoted to that purpose raised the issue of which journal to choose. Rather than purchase another journal, I took an inventory of my stock on hand. As […] (Read more)
The Summer Solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere this year on Thursday, June 20, at 10:04 p.m. (PDT) when the sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer, its farthest point north of the Equator. Great controversy surrounds the Summer Solstice. How can it mark the first day of summer? It is technically mid-summer, midway through the […] (Read more)
I received news this morning of the death of Jim McDaniel, “Cousin Jim.” He was ninety-one. We weren’t cousins, but that is how Jim characterized our relationship. Jim and his wife, Pat, were married forty-eight years at the time of his death, May 29, 2013. Between them, they have eleven children: Jim’s five children, Pat’s […] (Read more)
I recently stumbled upon a web page about the Three Rs of the Environment: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. After reading the article, I did an inventory to determine how I measure up environmentally. The reduce, reuse, recycle concept is significant in my life. I began recycling when I was in college in the 70s.Going through the […] (Read more)
Fresh off successful completion of the 2013 A to Z Blog Challenge, I joined the Writers of Kern Blog Challenge completing the first round of eight posts. I signed on for the second round but fell behind because of another challenge. In 2007, I began blogging with a WordPress hosted blog. WordPress is a publishing […] (Read more)