My time in Romania – July, 2024 to December, 2024 – was an unparalleled challenge – like never before.  Everything did not go wrong.  It just seemed as if it were ‘everything’.  I had only been in the country less…

I have a story to tell:     Once upon a time way back in the early 1900’s, there was a thirty-two-year-old mother of five with the youngest being only a few months old.  Besides their own biological children, the older widower…

I was shocked one year when I was teaching in the Providence (RI) Public School System to hear one of my students say, “I hate Christmas”.   And, even more shocked when I found out that there were others who held…

It’s interesting every four years watching so many get their thoughts, their brains – (and the need to revisit their junior high mentality) – over who is going to become elected President of the USA.  It’s sad, too.  I watch…

Every morning of our lives when we rise, we never know what that day will hold for us.  But generally, we don’t think about that.  In August, 2020, I was doing a simple leg exercise and in injuring my back…