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  • As I Grow Older, These Grow in Value

    What do you think gets better with age? Aging is not a curse nor a tragedy. It is a fact of life, and like all things in life, brings both good and bad. Indeed, age brings many good things with it. Many things grow in joy and fulfillment as we grow older. Here are just… Read more

  • Dinner with History’s Nameless

    If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite? If I could invite anyone … I wouldn’t let a thing like time get in the way. I would invite people long dead to learn their stories and the shape of history. Not famous people or those… Read more

  • A Reflection on Eclectic Interests

    What are you an authority on? Truth be told, I’ve never considered myself an authority on anything. Oh, sure, I write a blog and share my thoughts and insights on life, writing, and sundry subjects, but I don’t consider myself an expert on any of them. I certainly wouldn’t call myself an authority on writing,… Read more

  • What Makes a Teacher Great

    The best teachers have no interest in being loved. Does that surprise you? Do you think that a teacher should want to be liked by his pupils? But that is not a teacher’s duty. Teachers teach. Easy lessons, hard lessons, the things that make a student stretch out beyond his comfort zone to grasp. A… Read more

  • The Memories of Childhood

    I remember the smell of freshly baked peanut butter cookies in the kitchen wafting like a warm summer breeze. I remember how they crumbled in my hand as I ate them, little bits of delicious debris, and how there were always enough to last a week or more. I plucked them out of the Tupperware… Read more

  • Writers Need Their Comfy Chairs

    What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? My chairs. Writing requires a good and comfy chair to sit in. If you’re going to be at it for hours at a time typing away on your computer, you need to be sitting on something that won’t give you an aching back… Read more