Dreaming b-i-i-g

Dreaming b-i-i-g

Here’s a never-did-happen scenario for you to picture: a young married couple is leaving for a 10-day cruise and leaving their 5-year-old at home alone, with keys to the car and a credit card to use for any purchases. (Disregard, for now, your rising outrage at such...
A Countercultural Responsibility-taking 

A Countercultural Responsibility-taking 

Last year, at a neighbor’s Retirement Party, her former boss, now herself retired for over ten years, drove several hours to participate in the Open Mic time, saying she (the retiree) had been such an outstanding employee, that it would have been unthinkable to miss...
Power, Power, Wondering-working Power

Power, Power, Wondering-working Power

When I was around eleven years old, my brothers, six and years older than I, decided they would teach me how to drive. Off we went in my eldest brother’s 1958 Pontiac. When we got  far enough out in the countryside, they deemed it time for my first lesson. They...
Have we grown older than He?

Have we grown older than He?

Little children live in a world of wide-eyed wonder, filled with the discovery of colors and textures and sounds and tastes. They are carefree, with just two momentary troubles: their tummies and their diapers, the first, when it’s empty and the second when it’s full....