Small Towns and Big Stories
Harper Lee contributed to my moral compass like east defines the sunrise. I read her Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird” and saw the movie the year it came out–1963. Up […]
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Wings Over Me
I made myself a promise last year. That promise now hovers over my heart and across my shoulder. My first tattoo had marked a milestone birthday. I’d admired tattoo art […]
Keeping a Secret, Santa
A buzz was working its way from second grade desk to desk and it wasn’t from the sugar. We knew that Santa Claus was in the building.
Thanksgiving is a Pumpkin Tattoo?
How do you celebrate finding out that you got a second chance to live a better life? For me, it’s all about family and a tattoo artist named Ram. A […]
Life is the Lesson
Yesterday, I attended a graveside memorial service for a friend’s brother who died unexpectedly at age 52. We gathered in the shaded stillness of Lincoln cemetery and listened as his […]
Talking to a Chair
One Republican convention. One master director gone off the rails. One chaise longue in need of a home. My chair story is the kinder, gentler one. No Eastwooding involved. Seven years ago […]