Aberacadabera This week’s topic has been disappointment, and the yucky feeling we get when someone we care about says, “I’m disappointed in you.” I try to lighten my writing up a bit on Fridays, but lightness and disappointment don’t seem to go together all…
My Father and I in 1970 Coming from people who are important to us, there are very few words that can wound us as deeply as, “I’m disappointed in you.” The words take me back to a rainy cold day in July 1970, in…
I am pleased to bring you the thinking of today’s guest, Jackie Shannon Hollis. Jackie is a writer, storyteller, speaker and the author of the memoir, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. The book…
One face of my ‘Now Normal’ is that of a serious author, being interviewed about my life and my writing. Another face of my ‘Now Normal’ is that of a silly Nani chasing my grandsons with a water hose. …
My Mennonite Ancestors Evicted from their Homes in Russia – Makes Me Angry! In 1965, during a time of deep divisiveness and wounding in this country, Hal David wrote the lyrics to Burt Bacharach’s seminal song: “What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the…
I can’t really do anything other than be here — now This pandemic has at least temporarily ripped apart any illusions of permanence. But I find myself already trying to identify and claim the quasi-permanence of the next ‘new normal.’ Normal is that…