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Hate Crimes in Benghazi & The Bride of Osama
I felt defeated and outraged when I read today’s headlines about the death of four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.Do these people who are so enraged not realize that Sam Bacile’s thoughts and actions are not indicative of an entire...
How Do You Want to be Remembered?
“I’m just gonna ride him, ‘cause that’s what I do.”That’s what a father of one of the boys on my son’s team said to me.About the fifteenth insult he hurled onto the field, I found myself gritting my teeth.Around the twentieth slur, I had a flashback of the time I...
Six Cents
This woman gave me money,even when I didn't need it“Do you have six cents?” the cashier asked me after she rang up my $4.06 purchase.“No, ma’am, I’m sorry. I only have this ten.”“I have six cents,” the woman behind me said, and then fished coins from...
Digging for the Light, Excerpt 1
My last post was about hummingbirds and was included in the Happy Happenssegment of this blog.The following excerpt relates to the day after my Gavin’s first birthday, my second Mother’s Day.* * * The date was Sunday, May 12, 1991. Mother’s Day. I spent that day, the...
Digging for the Light Manuscript & Excerpts
What can we do when we are buried alive with grief and suffering? Dig for the Light.The author’s deepest, darkest living hell began: Seven years after her first child died unexpectedly; six years after the first miscarriage; three-and-a-half years after the second...
Hummingbirds
A pleasant distraction fromthe drudgery part of my day job I fill this feeder with homemade nectar numerous times throughout the summer season.The birds, some with shiny green backs, some with brilliant red throats, and some a dusty gray, frequent the station outside...