How will your life’s story end? What if, in the admittedly unknown time you have left, you had a wish-come-true opportunity to live life, if not all over again, at least fully, ‘twice upon a time,’ not just once? What would you do differently? Who might you love passionately? How would your new-found life change […]
Letter: The Day I Went Back
It had been one year since she left us. My wife of 50 years, the love and treasure of my life, the mother of our children and grandchildren, was gone. Cancer won. We all lost. In her memory then I climbed. There are two ways up that mountain, one with a view, and one (I […]
Letter: What a Spellbinding Story
What a spellbinding story, a mystery masterpiece, a compelling compendium for the ages! Is it the latest of Stephen King’s suspense-filled, science fiction fantasies? No, more intrigue even than that. Is it an Agatha Christie detective romance investigation? No, still more intricate and imaginative. Dickens or Dostoevsky, Tolkien or Tolstoy, Steinbeck or Shakespeare? All no. […]
God Keeps a Journal, Part III
I first wrote six years ago, March 13, on the subject of God’s musings in heaven as he looks down on earth, pondering. His hand holds a quill, recently dipped in the ink well nearby, and the writing instrument is poised above the journal he keeps. Upon what is he focused? What will he enter […]
Letter: Why We Wander
Perhaps because we’re searching for something we’ve lost. Perhaps because we’re needing somebody we once had. Perhaps we don’t even know. We just go. To fill an irreplaceable heart-shaped hole. To climb alone, one foot in front of the other, resting along the way. And the tears? Innumerable. And the view? Incomparable. And the peace? […]
Letter: God Keeps a Journal, Part III
I first wrote six years ago, March 13, on the subject of God’s musings in heaven as he looks down on earth, pondering. His hand holds a quill, recently dipped in the ink well nearby, and the writing instrument is poised above the journal he keeps. Upon what is he focused? What will he enter […]
Letter: Is There a Better Title Than ‘Dad’?
The French have a proverb: “Bonne renommee vaut mieux que ceinture doree.” Loosely translated the meaning is, “A good name is better than gold.” Is there a better name, a better title, than ‘dad’? I’m going through the arduous process of sorting through long-forgotten boxes in the basement of treasures my wife collected over […]
Letter: Plan Be
I’ve been going through long forgotten boxes upon boxes of photos of our family taken over the half-century my wife and I were married. When I sent this of our son to him (he now has children of his own) with the overlay of some advertisement the product for which I now forget, he quipped […]
Letter: Just Watch, You’ll See
What a beautiful morning this is! The sun is shining, the water so blue, I’ve been in love, how ‘bout you? In just 12 days, March 19 – the first day of spring in fact – my wife of 50 years married will have been gone one year. In addition to the too-many-to-recount memories (although […]