19 Oct Joyful Journeys
The recipe I am making for dinner calls for a garnish of thin apple slices. Hoping to find an apple, I search the refrigerator and bowl of fruit on the...
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12 Oct Nurturing Confidence
There is a book called The Carrot Seed that I remember reading to the girls when they were little. In the story, a little boy plants a single carrot seed. He...
05 Oct Birds of a Feather Chat Together
In the wild, parrots thrive in large, social flocks. But for the 20 million birds who are kept in captivity, such as in people’s homes as pets, these social creatures...
28 Sep The Possibility in Everything
As I inched along in the drive-through coffee line, I counted 133 partially written blog entries in my drafts email folder. I was not happy to realize I had this many abandoned...
21 Sep Letting Love Light the Way
The picture of the house was taken at night. The moon cast a soft glow on its weathered facade. There was no light coming from within the house. The windows were...
14 Sep Staggering Math
Imagine that a single life preserver is randomly dropped somewhere within the 139 million square miles of Earth’s oceans. And now imagine that somewhere, in one of those oceans, a single...