When That One Person Is You
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep. …
The Problem with Labels
I ate green stuff for lunch, my most ingenious concoction yet. This yogurt, fruit and green nutrient powder blend had zero-fat and only three hundred calories. Even more ingenious was how it slid down easily in my four-minute dash to lunch duty. Empowerment infused me just glancing over the display of vitamins, minerals and…
The Vanity in my Makeup
“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.” Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898 I’ve been distracted lately, uncomfortably so. Newscasters, celebrities, models in magazines, even those who are never in a spotlight, have me wondering why everyone is so glow-y. Their bronzed faces and merging strips of illuminator with…
Why Language Theory Should Be a Required Course
Saturday I witnessed a conversation that went something like this: Husband: I’m concerned it will take something egregious for him to see the truth. Wife: Egregious? What? Husband: As in bad . . . Wife: I know, I know. So why didn’t you just say bad? Just talk so people can understand you. Don’t you…
Is Original Thought Ever Original?
Where does the beginning for all beginners actually begin? From the Creator of all beginnings.
What Makes a Story Compelling to You?
I love stories–fiction and nonfiction. I even enjoy telling stories. During a week with my daughter and two granddaughters, I was sharing a story, of course, animated for the young ones, when six-year old Gracie tapped my leg. Looking up, her head stretched back to see my face, she said, “Nonny, you sure have a…
Up Close and Personal? Or So Far Away?
So much of our lives and our relationships are narrowed down or broadened by our perspective. Like artists who can paint the same scene in multiple ways, we also view life from our individual vantage points. Vantage point is all about the perspective where the artist is standing in relationship with a vanishing point in a…
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.–Scott Adams
A Richly Textured Life
Must the rough always be made smooth? Or so it appears in life, or at least with our public facades and selfies. In art texture with all of its diversities is noted as one of the seven basic elements of art, valued for its smooth and rough, its many values (more about that later). In truth,…
The Art of Lovely Living: 