The thoughts come to you slowly at first. But soon enough the ideas are bouncing around like tiny white pellets in a pinball machine. The excitement brews, bubbling with anticipation and eagerness. You stare ahead, eyes wide, transfixed by your own novel thoughts and the sheer potential of what might…

“Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.”  ~Author Unknown Summer vacation has officially started for our family.  School is out.  There have already been a few…

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”  ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story One of the most frequent questions I have been asked since I returned from…

We sat.  And we listened. We listened to the wind whistling through the tall grasses. We listened to the waves, softly lapping against the water’s edge. We listened…

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others.  Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on…