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 …
A Gracious Rain
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 …
Work Hard Play Hard
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 …
A New Year’s Proclamation
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 …
Waiting on the Moon
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 …
I Know A Song
“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 …
Loneliness – A Catalyst for Change
This Spring, two major studies were released on the subject of loneliness and the tangible impact it has on our society. I wrote the following article for a secular magazine, …