Follow via email
Archives
Categories
Tags
- #AdventWord
- Advent
- Advent Word
- Arizona
- Book of Common Prayer
- books
- cancer
- cemetery
- coming of age
- COVID-19
- definition
- discrimination
- education
- etymology
- First Amendment
- free speech
- friendship
- Globe
- healing
- history
- hope
- identity
- Kairos
- language
- light
- literature
- love
- meaning
- memories
- mentor
- metaphor
- ministry
- mot juste
- music
- Orwell
- photography
- poetry
- politics
- religion
- semantics
- student
- teacher
- word
- World War I
- writing
Category Archives: memories
United in Grief and Patriotism: The Memory of a 10-Year-Old Girl
What were you doing 60 years ago today? (If twinkling somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, don’t bother to reply.)
Posted in America, Arizona, divisiveness, freedom, history, memories, politics, unity
Tagged America, Arizona, assassination, Globe, history, Kennedy, memory, mourning, National Anthrm, patriotism
4 Comments
The Evening and the Morning
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second … Continue reading
Relationships in Red Ink: 50 Years
My relationships with red ink have been myriad and complicated.
More Mountains, More Epiphanies: My 50th Class Reunion (cont.)
Part 3: Fulfillment Sharing Memories: GHS Tour Saturday was packed with reunion activities beginning with a tour of the high school. Aside from a few incidentals–different windows, a change of color, lowered ceilings, the addition of a gazebo, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, class reunion, education, faith, GHS class reunion, Globe, healing, high school, memories, story
Tagged Arizona, Class reunion, coming of age, education, GHS class reunion, Globe, healing, high school, identity, memories
4 Comments
At the Top of Round Mountain: My 50th Class Reunion (cont.)
Part 2: The Gathering Thursday, November 4 After uneventful flights from Raleigh-Durham to Sky Harbor, I felt like a rube on her first trip to the big city as I attempted to exit the airport and find my ride. Several … Continue reading
Wilmer and Friends . . . Old Friends
The following conversation occurred late on a summer afternoon about fifteen years ago at a house on the shores of Lake Gaston, North Carolina. The participants were a guileless pre-pubescent girl named Victoria and her two much older auditors, Vicki … Continue reading
Fatty, Fatty, Two by Four
A fat child For the illumination of those who didn’t bear the sting of the taunt that inspired my title, let me quote: Fatty, fatty, two by four, Couldn’t get through the bathroom door, So she did it on the … Continue reading