A Garden Dinner Among Friends
Ever find yourself on the road and jonesing for a home-cooked meal, in a real home, surrounded by good stories shared among friends and dirty dishes gathering by the sink…
Read moreA New Year – And a Word.
I gave up on New Year’s resolutions several years ago. You know the drill – you start off all enthusiastic and focused, and by March, the focus blurs and the…
Read moreGrace, Blessings, and Being Thankful
Sometimes it’s hard, what with injustice and sadness and tragedy in the world. Ferguson. ISIS. Cancer. Rape. Abuse. Sometimes it feels too heavy, too much, more than we can carry. But…
Read moreDoing the Right Thing: Good Sense & Good Business
Just hours after the Ray Rice inside-the-elevator video surfaced, an off-duty Honolulu police sergeant chased his girlfriend through the tiny restaurant where she is a manager and threw punch after…
Read moreI Remember
My mother left the cotton fields of Mississippi to rivet airplanes at Hickam Air Field during WW II. When the war ended, she returned to the States, started her life,…
Read moreThe Stupid Decisions of Ray Rice and Roger Goodell
I can’t decide whether to think NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is a misogynist, a company yes-man, or just the village idiot. Surely no reasonably-thinking person believes the NFL Commissioner when he says…
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