Off the Maine coast, the shore is too rocky to enable boats to come all the way in to anchor. To make matters worse, some of the highest tides in the world are found off the northern coast of that ...
Time moves in a straight line. It is like walking down an unfamiliar garden path. We put one step after another, and as our journey continues, we travel from the beginning toward the end. At any ...
August is the cruelest of the summer months. The heat has built during June and July, the fields have dried, and there seems to be no relief from the dog days that have replaced the glory of early ...
Let’s look at an unusual word. Existential. It means having to do with life, with our existence, with the fact that we are here and alive on this very day.
Now let’s take a derivative of that ...
It is every little girl’s desire to marry a prince. It is Disney to the core, for that perfect man to come in to sweep us off our feet, and to be carried away to a distant land of tall towers, ...
In gardening, some of the worst weeds to fight are those woody-stemmed, prickly nuisances called briars.
If we dig them out, one small bit of root left intact will fester underground until it gains ...
FAIR can mean to give equal measure to two different sides. For example, if we have a son and a daughter, and we give one a car, it is only FAIR to offer the other something of equal ...
Read more: Our FAIR God
Summer is our time to be outside. Rain? Go away, the chant goes. Come again some other day. We need the brilliance of the sun for our trips, games, and ...
Read more: Our CLOUDLESS God
Long distance travel to a far city is a tedious affair. Whether we fly or we drive, spending hours peering out the window at precious little of nothing makes us want to pull our hair in ...
Read more: Watching the Map
When we cook, we want the sharpest blade possible. That T-bone steak? The meat has to come off the bone. Ham, no matter how meaty and tender, also has to be carved off the bone. Even vegetables ...
Read more: The Sharp Blade
It is in the nature of our world for things to go down. Water flows downhill. Heavier, colder air settles in the lowlands. Drop a hammer? It always lands on our ...
Read more: Lift Up the Lad
Rainbows are transient things, not there in the most real sense, but rather an effect of several other things. What makes up a rainbow? Water. Sunlight. That’s it. Even then, however, we must be at ...
