I have a plaque on the wall in my kitchen that reads “Bloom where God plants you.” This morning that struck me as not quite something that rings true for me right now. Where I am is not necessarily God’s fault or God’s plan. I have free will (that’s what makes me a…

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the thing I am And Wisdom to know the difference. I first learned that prayer – those words as a teenager. I’ve repeated them and prayed them frequently since that time….

My mother has remarked more than once that I always wanted to succeed at things I’m not good at and ignore the things that come naturally. Leave it to Mama to see through you… The comment has also been made that I’m a bit like Groucho Marx: “I…

Compassion seems to be the recent recurring theme in my thoughts and prayers. It was in the forefront of ideas in one of my recent reads – “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” by Sharon Begley, which reports on a meeting of neuroscientists, buddhist…

Last night, as I was strapping on my CPAP it felt like this was just another one of my many tethers. I’ve had it a month. It fits under my nose and pushes air into my lungs so that I can sleep – really sleep – through a long hose that attaches me to…