What line must be crossed for there to be no inappropriate time or place? Read More

It is cause for pause -- a small foundation, begun but not completed, abandoned, sitting, sinking, slowly being reclaimed by the woods in which it was conceived. Read More

Our differences are what we share -- the fact that we are different, all of us from one another, is how we are the same. Read More

   W.P. Kinsella died last fall. For those who don’t know, wrote the book, “Shoeless Joe” upon which the movie, “Field of Dreams” was based. He also wrote, “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy” (along with a slew of other novels and sort stories). Both those books I read on recommendation from my father (who is gone… Read More

I believe they loved each other, but that's never enough. Not for an entire life together. Read More

"....Regardless of age he listened more than he spoke and smiled readily, encouraging them to speak their minds, their hearts, acknowledging that their words, their feelings were meaningful and important..." Read More