"Our children no longer learn how to read the great book of nature from their own direct experience." -Wendell Berry Sad as it is, in this fast paced world of technology Wendell Berry's statement is hard to argue with. Ever the…
Closing out chapters of our lives is both exhilarating and scary! I'm about to move away from a place where I spent eighteen years which included a very difficult period in my infancy and early childhood. Then, I moved away…
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” ―Baltasar Gracian For two years I have been hearing people talk about Simon's famous Baltimore peach cake. It's made the classic way, yeast-based cake topped with fresh peaches like my Grandmother…
Have you ever taken a year to study a book? I'm about to wrap up this experience. I and a small learning circle of people from Mays Chapel United Methodist Church have been on a quest pondering the writings of…
Last fall I joined in on a book club at the Church of the Good Shepard in Ruxton, Maryland. I am grateful for this space where our members can meet and communicate about our joint interests. We have a thirst for…
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~ Aristotle What a pleasure to return to the Cathedral of Books, well-known as The George Peabody Library in Baltimore. I wrote about my first visit in August 2018…
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Exactly a month ago today I had the opportunity to do something else that fills me with JOY.…
"Your heart and my heart are very old friends." ~ Hafiz She's the salt of the earth, I've often thought as I've spent time over the course of my life with my childhood neighbor, Marge. It's been many a year…
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~ Author Norman Cousins For an author, what better way to spend a birthday weekend than exploring Baltimore's treasured Peabody Library at Johns…
The book you don’t read won’t help. –Jim Rohn Who remembers the milkman? I do! But, I've never yet met a milkman's daughter ... that is, until now! Evidently she's read my book Gift of a Lifetime: Finding Fulfilling Things in the…