The chapel at Hollins University This NBC News article says that in these strange times, most Americans don't believe college is worth ...

We are coming up on the anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. I was five months old. My mot...

A very long time ago, back before 9/11 and George W. Bush, before I was really paying attention to national politics and instead spending my...

  Speak Love is the theme for this year's Blog Blast 4 Peace. Love. It's the thing we all desire, the emotion that many believe wil...

He walks the edge of ruin and revelation Some men don’t need spells to be witches. Their presence alone reshapes the emotional landscape. Th...

I was sorry to see that the military parade marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces wasn’t exactly a proud or insp...

AI Image When I was very young, my grandmother kept me a lot because my mother worked a full-time job. One of the things my grandmother did ...

AI Image A reflection on AI, loneliness, and the lost art of conversation The other day, I was talking with a friend who mentioned she’d bee...

AI Image We almost all have feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, sadness, bewilderment, and low self-esteem, unless we’re suffering from a pe...

Last week I learned that my elementary school boyfriend passed away. He was the same age as I am. He had a SO, a grown child, and a grandson...

I am taking a break from working on my tax records and trying to come up with something to write about. My brain is shoved full of informati...

For a while now, I've been trying to decide if I am "real" enough in this blog. I read other people's writing, and it seem...

  Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I don't know a lot about this man, something I need to rectify. I am not a big biography rea...

"Hope is the thing with feathers," says Emily Dickinson in one of her more famous poems. It is also something I often feel I am at...

Yesterday, I was visiting with the woman who has cut my hair for a very long time. Regular readers may remember she retired pre-pandemic, an...

About 20 years ago, maybe a little less, when the Thanksgiving Day newspaper showed up in the paper box, it was as thick as two encyclopedia...

In the days after September 11, 2001, I remember seeing blue skies unmarred by the trails of aircraft, because the planes were grounded. It ...