We don’t do it often but once every other month or so we host a small dinner party for a group of close friends. In between times, other friends host dinners or we go out to a restaurant and dine together. We’ve met like this for over 4 decades.
Some…
If anyone had told me that I would be writing a note of gratitude to Medium publications such as Illumination, Reading Rhombus, House of Haiku, Live Your Life on Purpose, Spiritual Tree, Writers’ Bloke, Politically Speaking, Sky Collection, Literary Impulse, A Few Words, Thank You Notes, About Me Stories, and…
This is about me, but not about all of me.
I remember reading years ago that the average person will have seven different jobs over the course of his or her working life. …
“Smart people aren’t that smart. They primarily choose to learn over their ego’s desire to look good.” ~ Tim Denning
Tim’s an internet guru with tens of thousands of followers and a fellow Medium writer. In a recent email, he reminded me of important things we can do if we…
One close, one far, far away.
This is my note of thanks for such places.
I got an email this morning from a company that sells software to the translation industry reminding me of this special day.
My wife and I worked in that industry for over 30 years. We retired from it in 2014 just as automated machine translation began picking up. Machines would…
Yesterday I put up a T.P. holder in our newly remodeled bathroom. It was the last item that needed to go up for the project to be 100% complete. The week before I installed a matching towel bar (see photo above). It had gone up without a hitch. …
Peace is something I pray for often. I didn’t know there was a day dedicated to it until I came across this site
In 2017 “Secretary-General António Guterres designated Malala Yousafzai, global advocate for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as a United Nations Messenger of Peace…
“That’s the gift of creativity. It never abandons you. The trick is to not abandon creativity.” ~ John P. Weiss
This is a good message for me. Lately, I haven’t felt much like writing. Too many other things pressing on my life. …
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