Habits sneak up on us; that is their job! I tell students this and they are shocked. But, it is the truth. For this reason our best friend is developing a keen sense of awareness. By being conscious and aware, we can more quickly be aware when a habit is knocking at the door and…

The state of our troubled world is brought ever more close with the massacre on 14 March 2019, in Christchurch, NZ! No matter whether you are for or against globalization, it is here. Our world becomes smaller and smaller! We feel in our broken hearts and gut the travesties which keep happening not only at home, but…

Every morning around 7:30, 5 days a week, I get into our car and drive out of our garage to carpool. Because we live in a condo and the garage is below the building, at the gate there is a parking attendant sitting in a small booth. Each day we greet each other with a smile and…

OK, the first sentence of this blog, which I drafted several weeks ago, was this: “as we start a New Year I plan to write  more regularly.” It is pretty obvious that I have already not moved forward in this area. For longer than I wish to admit, projects, large and small, have been lying…

Earlier this week would have been my friend Hyacinth’s 79th birthday. I miss so much about her and I am thankful that I had some time to know her. I smile as I remember the first time we met. We went to the Roanoke, VA airport to meet her and Nelson  when they arrived from Toronto…

Several events in the past couple of months have stopped me in my tracks and pushed me to reconsider how I am going to spend the rest of my life. I started thinking about this more after the death of one of my dearest friends. He lived a long and very productive life, but losing…