Tag: love
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Not In Kansas Anymore!

I’m particularly fond of old movies. When producers try to update them, I’m often disappointed with the addition of computer graphics and other up-to-date gizmos to make a movie more exciting for our current screen-obsessed culture. One of my all-time favorite movies is “The Wizard of Oz”, starring Judy Garland as the small-town girl from…
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‘Twas Christmas Night

photo courtesy of Ian Borg on Unsplash ‘Twas the week before Christmas when all through the burg, folks were packed up and heading out because of the word of the current governor of Syria, Quirinias by name, who wanted a census taken for a very specific aim. To know who lived in his region, to…
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Magic Is Alive And Well

In a world where facts are questionable, and news is perceived as fake, when you can’t trust the pictures you see without wondering if they’ve been doctored, there’s still space for awe and wonder and a little Christmas magic. When I was a kid, believing in Santa Claus made sense to me. We didn’t have…
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Man Is The Moon

I was on a Zoom call with two friends the night of October 6th. As novice writers, we spoke of projects we’re working on, seeking to encourage each other to keep putting words on paper. Toward the end of the conversation, my friend reminded us that there was a special moon that night, the moon…
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To Be Loved So Well

He’d been in the hospital for a week, and tests were being run to discover the exact nature of his illness. His children hadn’t seen him during that time, as a precaution. They’d missed him terribly and could hardly wait for him to come home. Coming home, however, wasn’t returning everything to normal. Ramsay wasn’t…