My mother gobbled books with the the same swift abandon that Cookie Monster gobbles cookies. The well-worn reading chair. The stack beside it her weekly haul from the local public library. How many times that little woman read her weight in paper I can’t imagine. By comparison, I read at the rate that glaciers polish stone. My mind wanders. I get distracted by […]
“It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly.” – Ebeneezer Scrooge. ” Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that […]
A few members of my tribe are struggling just now. Health problems, financial problems. We earn our livings by dint of our imaginations, so our incomes rarely exceed our expenses and our insurance polcies, when we have them, cover our assets about as modestly as hospital gowns. There’s no margin for error. Reading Sister […]
