These days, it's awfully easy to fall victim to the fear, uncertainty and doubt that floods our airwaves and social media feeds about a virus 24/7. We want to just "do something" but most of us are under stay at home orders, so options are limited. It appears from my glances at my timelines this…
Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand,'Cause when everything is handed to youIt's only worth as much as the time put inIt all just seemed so good the way we had itBack before everything became automatic As we enter into our third week of self-isolation, sheltering in place, social distancing, whatever…
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, that one should preserve it.Anais Nin Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay Much has been, is being, and will be written about what is currently happening in our world right now. If you're looking for answers from me, I'm fresh out. But I have been…
It doesn't seem like that long ago...in fact, for me it was in a professional development class I took only a week or so ago...when we were talking about how anyone under the age of twenty today was not born when we endured the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When we talk about things…
Immunize (verb) im-yuh-nahyz, ih-myoo-nahyz to make immuneto render harmless or ineffective, to neutralizelaw: to grant immunity (as to a witness) There is a powerful scene in the HBO series John Adams where Adams' wife, Abigail, sees the 1775 smallpox epidemic wreaking havoc in her community. Her husband was away serving in the Continental Congress and…
The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election will not be a woman. (Well, unless Tulsi Gabbard has a heck of a surge, I suppose.) I was offline most of the day in a meeting, but once I got to the airport I had time to review what had happened in the news today. Elizabeth…
A gift of age and life experience is the opportunity to view things in the fullness of time. Within a year of my college graduation, the Challenger blew up and fell out of the sky and the oil business in Houston sank like a stone. It was a heartache for the city I had chosen…
It's been a warmer winter than usual, so the rose bushes were already starting to show some new growth and the beginning of buds at the end of their straggly winter branches. I hated to prune them and was tempted to just let it go. If I did, we'd have new rose blooms maybe even…
Oh, my aching back. 🙂 Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Yesterday was the day. We had circled the weekend on our calendars. We were going to stay home and tend to our yard. That might sound crazy to those of you still dealing with ice and snow, but here in Texas the average last…
It's an election year in the US. I've started thinking more about how much effort is put into influencing our opinions - not just by the political parties and individual campaigns but by all of the intertwined sources of information we consume. It seems like immediately after every debate or televised speech, some variation of…
Red Chair Reflections 