A feeling, a “hunch”, the “I don’t know how I know, but I know” sensation that most of us have probably felt at least once in our lives may be one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe. Some may define it formally as “intuition” but in my childhood household my mother always referred … Continue reading
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The Power of We
Colossians 3:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV) 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all … Continue reading
The Age of Aquarius – Really?
In 1970, I was seven years old, and a singing group called, (Huey, n.d.), was about the coolest thing that a little black girl from Terre Haute, Indiana could see on television. Back then, it was rare to see non-white Americans on TV (or just about anywhere else for that matter) so when a group … Continue reading
What’s the Point of Conversation?
The Quora Chronicles – Part 8 Many times, when questions like this one appear in my “Asked to Answer” notifications on Quora I find myself wondering about the person who asked the question and why they asked it. Is this person simply shy, anti-social, or a Millennial or Gen Z who communicates mostly through social … Continue reading
Cracking the Code – The Quora Chronicles Part 5
How Teaching ESL Sometimes Requires the Sleuthing Skills of Sherlock Holmes I love language – reading, writing, grammar, spelling – it all just makes perfect sense to me. So after a 26-year detour working in Corporate America, in 2010 I took the plunge and returned to school for a master’s degree in Education with a … Continue reading
Accentuating the Negative? The Quora Chronicles Part 2
“You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon’t mess with Mr. In-betweenYou got to spread joy up to the maximumBring gloom down to the minimumAnd have faith, or pandemoniumLiable to walk upon the scene.” (Arlen & Mercer, 1944) With its relentlessly upbeat lyrics, it is fairly ironic that Arlen and … Continue reading
Starting My “Bucket List”
Since turning 60 earlier this year, I’ve naturally started to think about a “bucket list”. For many people the bucket list is all about places to visit or experiences to have. But as a certified, “bookworm”, “bibliophile”, “reader” or just a straight up nerd, my life, since as far back as I can remember has … Continue reading
Black Church – White Church
Red states and blue states, right wing and left, liberals, conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Independents, Libertarians, Green Party, Trumpers, Never Trumpers, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, Q-Anon, the list goes on and on. Even though we are supposed to be “one nation under God”, it seems that we, as modern … Continue reading
The Upside Down Pyramid
I know that I’m getting older when I begin to notice the names of my former middle school and high school teachers filling the obituary pages of the online version of my old hometown newspaper with disturbingly increasing regularity. It shouldn’t come as such a shock; it has been four decades after all, since I … Continue reading
Bake a Bigger Pie
It seems so ironic that the United States, a proud country with tons of “swagger” and one which describes itself, in its own national anthem no less, as “the land of the free and the home of the brave” (Key, 1814) has gradually become alarmingly skittish in response to just about everything. Perhaps this collective … Continue reading
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