I stood, peering out the window into the sky, blackened by an angry storm. I watched as the tempest tormented and raged, intimidating the landscape with its strength. Like a …

It’s a scramble up the mountain behind our house. There are no well scouted-out switch-backs for measured steps. The path just heads straight up through knee deep sagebrush, and then …

Heavy clouds have come up over the charcoal bay. Their ominous, rotund shapes are forming on the horizon, reaching immeasurably high above the choppy waters. Sea birds skirt the shoreline …

I come to this page like a school girl, timid and reticent, not because she is shy, but because she has been caught skipping class. With a head bowed in …

I was taught to close each and every prayer ever said, with the words, “in the name of Jesus”. Perhaps I thought of it like a special incantation that made …

I went to to see the light. I went to see the biggest, brightest full moon of my lifetime. So I went early, not to miss it’s earliest ascent over …

“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plow in the fields and the sweaty faces of …

“Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle …

Today begins Sabbatical. I mostly thought it was for Milton, as he drove off for quiet retreat, reflection, and rest. Which leaves me with the same. So, as I think …

If you are neither a French major nor a morning person, you are going to have to bear with me. But if you are, then you will love, like I …