I remember overhearing a man talking about how hard he was working to ensure that his lawn was nothing but uniformly green St. Augustine grass, thick, neat edgings, and without crab or monkey grass.
To my mind, yards like that look a bit sterile.
My wife is a few years younger than I am, and I think when I met her she was a bit impressed with me. She actually thought that I knew stuff, maybe I even had some wisdom. She quickly disabused herself of that opinion, of course. Familiarity, contempt, you know the routine. But it got … [Read more…]
There’s this woman I know of, who has too many children. The unfortunate thing, however, is that despite the natural differences among them, she all expects them to perform and master new skills on demand: all at the same time, and at with same level of proficiency.
Syrian immigrants included my grandparents. Today we are accepted as Lebanese Christians, but 100 years ago we were not welcome, either.
Physical, emotional, sexual abuse; what about intellectual abuse? Modern education begins in the medieval, when there was no respect for freedom of thought.
Consider these Thanksgiving thoughts: beyond our one day to focus on our tremendous bounty, we too often forget to be grateful the rest of the year.