Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat out on my deck reading one quiet summer morning. From the corner of my eye, I caught a Blue Jay flitting between the houses. He had just landed on the gutter of the house behind ours. He stood there for a few moments and then spread his wings…
Reading Time: 4 minutes He was late for his meeting with the Senate. His wife’s troubling dreams through the night had detained him to the point of tardiness. Perhaps it was the light of the full March moon that had kept her awake and prompted her imagination to run wild. Perhaps it was something…
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Hocus Pocus”, “Abracadabra”, “Shazam”, and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!” Even a cursory scan of the top-grossing movies of recent years would reveal that we have a fascination with all things magical, mysterious and supernatural. Why is this? Some would attribute this inclination to an insidious plot of our ancient foe, but I think…
Reading Time: 5 minutes No, this is not an article of the #MeToo Movement. Such a title might well evoke a host of loaded meanings, but no, this article doesn’t really have to do with the masculine gender at all. I use men in the generic and older use of the term, merely meaning…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Look around you now, wherever you are. Take notice of the straight, vertical lines all around you. Have you ever noticed them before – the legs on the table, the straight line of the corners in your room, the lines in the tile, the sides of a picture frame? They’re…
