"When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear." I know that wasn't a mom original. She always had a way of repackaging common sayings, applying them with a teacher's tact and her own personal flair, though. Maybe she said that one so often to me because I never saw her as my teacher when [...]
I don't go to church every week, but I wish I did. This Saturday, I went. I don't want to go to church more often because then I could feel good about checking off an item on my list of Things One Must Do To Be Good (the way I used to think of church [...]
Dad, me, Teddy, MomPensacola FLFebruary 2005My parents are teachers - one by trade, one by practical application. My mom was an English and Creative Writing teacher, my dad was an Air Force Navigator, yet both instructed all of us (me and my three siblings) on everything from weather patterns (dad) to proper grammar (mom) to [...]
"To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea." William Zinsser On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Ok, folks - hey, is anyone out there? ;) - it's time to delve into [...]
Wow, I really keep lucking out with all these "s" words don't I?? ;) [I'll take "swords" for 500, Alex.]Ok, so, I've been doing less of the updatey blogs and more of the deep thoughts type posts lately, but today I feel like I gotta do a little quickie update. I've been away from the [...]
[I submitted the article below to Yahoo!Contributor in 2011. The entry had to be under 500 words, so this is a VERY brief recount of that day. For every eligible submission the Yahoo! Contributor Network received through this assignment, Yahoo! donated $10, up to $10,000, to the 9/11 Memorial Fund.] I boarded the university bus, [...]
A Bailey haiku :)http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8354543/rescue_dog.html?image=1791663&cat=47
Below is one email I found between college roommate and ROTC buddy, Kate, and I while we were both deployed in Iraq (but at different bases). Re-reading our exchange, six years later to the day, gave me chills. If you'd like to provide feedback on the impact the wars have made on our generation, please [...]
Vino Tinto Vino tinto on a Tuesday nightGranada beckons holds me tightAlhambra embrace foreign laceMuslim markets, tasty tapas pero, que is "grapas"Me encanta Spain I drink it all inI feel warm here I'll be back againFootballers handsome, olives strongNight owls walk the streets, and feel I belongContentment...ahh...it fills up my soul it's past midnight, time for [...]
I just so happened to have already been reading the book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra before my visit to Virginia, and finished it while I was there. Reading that book while practicing yoga each day at Flow Yoga was pure providence. The basic tenets of both the book and the [...]