We are a nation of strangers. Welcoming the stranger when we’ve needed them to farm our fields, lay our railroads, or build our skyscrapers has always been part of our country’s philosophy. On Monday many of us will again be waving flags, grilling burgers and hotdogs, and watching fireworks to celebrate our independence. In the 1600 and 1700s European countries, especially England launched hundreds of ships full of immigrants who eventually established what became the […]
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Life Does Go On – June Newsletter 2022
Oh, but now old friends they’re acting strange And they shake their heads and they tell me that I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living every day. (Both Sides Now, Lyrics by Joni Mitchel ©Crazy Crow Music) Dear Friend – For reasons I cannot explain, I got this song by Joni Mitchel stuck in my head as I walked my laps in the pool this morning. Life can seem overwhelming at times. Politicians who try to do right […]
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Making the Right Move
Summer is prime time for moving. Making the right move for yourself, for your family, or for your career, is sometimes learned in retrospect when we make the wrong move first. Moving is stressful. It ranks right up there with death, divorce, and catastrophic illness as one of the major life stressors. When my family moved to Houston in August 1982, it was our fourth move in five years. I enrolled our daughters in their […]
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It Takes a Village
It takes a village to raise each new generation. Last Monday was the 78th Anniversary of “D-Day,” aka “Operation Overload.” On June 6, 1944, a village of 150,000 troops, 195,000 sailors, and 23,000 airmen put down their collective feet to say, “NO MORE!” to the violence, tyranny, and carnage created by a madman. Can’t We All Just Get Along? This question is a paraphrase of what Rodney King asked in 1992 when riots spread destruction, death, […]
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Graduation Musings
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1) I’m in Graduation Musings mode this week. May 14, 2022 two family young adults, plus the fiancé of one of them, will flip tassels from one side to the other. That brings to an end a steady stretch of family members in school dating back to 1999 when the oldest of this generation started kindergarten. The break from classes […]
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