Counting My Blessings, Being a Blessing to Others
Reading Time: 2 minutes A deafening chorus of “my covers are messed up” are coming from my daughters’ bedroom. Apparently, one corner is turned up on one bed. The sheets are tossed off another. Bedtime was an hour ago. They’re still going strong. Me? I’m reminded how the best Mother’s Day gifts are free. The Gift of Silence for …
Reading Time: 2 minutes My fingers ache. My mind is in daze. My computer screen is a blur. No, I’m not sick. I’m just pulling what’s beginning to feel like an all-nighter. Those late night cram sessions, those last minute dashes to the bookstore to buy Spark Notes or those papers written in the wee hours of the morning …
Reading Time: 2 minutes “My dream is for everyone to be friends.” My daughter wore a shirt to school with those words printed across her heart. We made it a few months ago during a discussion about what kind of world she wants to live in. That was before the bomb threats at her Jewish school. Raising Kind, Compassionate …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ask my daughters what firefighters do, they’ll say they put fires out. They’ll explain police catch the bad guys. Until two months ago, their only contact with police and firefighters was at local community events and birthday parties. They would meekly say “hi” and climb aboard a fire engine. Sometimes, they left with plastic red …
Reading Time: 2 minutes One year. Depending on how you look at it- that’s 52 weeks, 356 days or exactly 8,771 hours since my final goodbye from the anchor desk of a local noon newscast. It was a career that began in college at 19. I worked in news in New York, Boston, Montana, Indiana and Alabama. I cannot …