In the first two hours after my first Trinity blog posted I lost 19 followers. To be sure, I noticed only because I don't have that many followers. Initially, my heart sank a little. In my mind, Jack Nicholson screamed in revolt, "You can't handle the truth!" The truth was that I had stopped merely... Continue Reading →
Marriage I didn't get into it thinking that it was a 50 - 50 thing. Actually, I figured that sometimes it would be 60-40, 30-70, 80-20, or even 10-90 depending on who was strong and who needed the most support at any given moment. To be sure, it should most often be around 50-50, but...... Continue Reading →
Have you ever felt like a pot about to boil over, like milk or Farina simmering in a pot that suddenly expands exponentially before you’ve had a chance to turn off the flame? I feel that now. In my home. In my community. In the air. There are societal whirlwinds brewing, and they are too... Continue Reading →
Some books make you cry; others make you angry. This book does both. My teenage daughter had been asking me to read this for some time now, and I’m glad I finally did. If you are looking for a real page-turner, this is it. There is something for the young adult reader and the more... Continue Reading →
Turning Corners Whenever you turn a corner in life, you have to undergo some change. Leaves always have the beautiful autumn colors you see at the change of seasons. The only reason you don’t see them throughout the spring and summer months is that the verdant chlorophyll overpowers the other colors. When the colder weather... Continue Reading →
As some of you may know, I like to read the books my children have been assigned to read at school so we can talk about them. This weekend my 7th grader brought home, The Wave by Todd Strasser. The book is based on a history teacher’s class experiment in 1969. Originally published in 1981,... Continue Reading →
Remembering is active. Sorting through the boxes, files, junk drawers, and sealed black garbage bags in your mind is like cleaning out your garage. It’s usually fairly easy to pick up the larger labeled containers and organize them neatly on the driveway, but as soon as you open a box, well that might just lead... Continue Reading →
"Never be afraid to sit a while and think." It's a line from one of my favorite plays, A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Potently poignant, the play is about the struggles of an African American family in the 1950s as they navigate, personal, familial, religious, generational, and cultural differences during the early civil... Continue Reading →
Ants You never have to wonder what an ant's end game is. They don't say they want one thing and then do something entirely different or nothing at all. There is no do what I say and not what I do when it comes to ants; Ants are doers. The kitchen conversation this week included... Continue Reading →
