Movies in mid-winter

Blink and be totally lost in this financial shell game. When life falls apart, is there a 2nd act? Faced with a great wrong, what can one person do? A journey out of this world. Mind over matter is just a saying, or?

Carpe annum

January. We’re still getting used to the idea of a new year. But the days are getting longer. A whole year ahead. Time to dream about things that can happen this year. Maybe a fresh start.

’tis the day before Christmas…

What does Christmas Eve (and Christmas Day) mean to you? Hurrying? Scurrying?

But what if there were no Christmas? Ever!

We’re all immigrants

We’re born. Somewhere. A geographic location. Then we move. Sometimes across a border. We become immigrants.

Giving thanks — not just for one day of the year

Thanksgiving Day is a huge holiday in the US. But gratitude and saying “Thanks” isn’t limited to only that day.

The greatest threat: External or internal?

It’s far less likely that some foreign terrorist is going to come blow up my house or business than that I will do something myself to derail and mess it up.

The power line

It was a dark and stormy night. Thunderclaps aplenty. Then another, really loud noise. Much closer. That couldn’t be good!

Of pinpricks and a Milky Way

How often do you stop and look up at the sky at night? Quite possibly not that often. Because we tend to be in a hurry to get home. It’s dark. And there’s nothing to see up there anyway. Except there is …

Everything was better before — and the more before the better

“The good old days.” “I miss the old days.” “Life was simpler then.”

We look/think/dream back a few decades and see a time in the rearview mirror when the world was in ever so much better shape.