Which Direction?
Living things move. Occasionally inanimate objects move too but mostly they wait to be acted upon by living things, volcanoes and...
On Curve Balls and Bean Balls
Baseball, the American past-time. More so in years past than today, baseball has provided some of our most interesting characters and...
Diamonds in the Dung
OK, I can be intense. I know that. But sometimes my passion gets me in trouble when I let it get out of hand and run roughshod over...
Reaping the Benefits of Fallow
There is a temptation to presume that the sole benefit of laying fallow is rest and a break from most everything. Not so. There are...
Enacting the Lifestyle of Fallow
I can hear you ask, “So how do I enact a lifestyle of fallow?” The simple answer is to choose one day in seven and as much as possible...
Fallow Follow-thru
OK, I will try to be as concise as possible but sometimes a preamble is necessary. As many of you know or have suspected, I come to Life...
A Season of Laying Fallow
I have been fallow for a while. Occasionally a person needs a season of diminished productivity, lying fallow. This, of course, is an...
The Past – Reject, Relive or Remember
Among other things, Mae West humorously observed, “Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.” More recently...
Embracing Normal
Having over indulged our entire lives, sobriety can be dull, quite frankly. When everything in your life has been over the top or out on...
When Life Overwhelms You
I have a quote at the bottom of my emails, "I try to take one day at a time, sometimes several days attack me at once." ~ Anonymous. It...