Category Archives: Essays

Time

    Time “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” (Henry Van Dyke) The world has certainly gotten crazier over the last decade. The way people act you’d think none of… Read More »

Why

    Why You wake up and you look out your bedroom window and you see it’s another beautiful spring day. You hear the birds singing, you see the flowers opening in the sun, and you smell the fresh, clean spring breeze. You see a deer peacefully eating a plant in a field, you see a bee hopping… Read More »

It’s the Little Things

    It’s the Little Things They showed their pretty heads this week. After a cold and snowy winter, the crocuses, and the snowdrops magically showed their lovely heads and broke winter’s spell – at least for a while. One day the ground was covered with snow, then the snow melted and brown, muddy dirt was all that… Read More »

It’s About Time

    It’s About Time Well. here it is again… the weekend of the time change. Just last year I learned that calling daylight saving time, “Daylight Savings Time”, with an s at the end, is horribly stupid, dumb, and incorrect. They say it makes me look like an idiot to everyone who knows better. Daylight Savings Time… Read More »

In Like a Lamb

    In Like a Lamb The wet, freezing, morose winds of winter must have eyes and those eyes must have been looking at a calendar because, on the first day of March, those harsh winds of winter ceased, and March came in like a lamb. The walks and ways and forest trails that were just last week… Read More »

The Greatest Man I’ve Ever Known

      The Greatest Man I’ve Ever Known On February 26, 1971, the greatest man I have ever known passed away. And though he passed away that bitter February night, he lives on in my heart and in my memory.  There hasn’t been a day that has gone by in these last fifty years that I have… Read More »