Posts Tagged ‘mark’s remarks’

OK, so I told everybody I wouldn’t be writing any more columns about teaching, kids, parents and retirement. I’m a big talker.  I also said in February that I’d lose…

Are any of you like me and often get in a mundane rut?  When the days start to get a little longer and the weather reminds us that sunlight and…

his is the time of the year when there is so much going on, we almost feel like it’s a holiday season of sorts. Someone called the month of May…

I have often thought of the contrasts that present themselves when we look back at our early days on this earth; or for that matter, even before we got here.…

I just saw a Snow Angel Challenge video, which the kids call reels these days. It was a guy in swim trunks who had been challenged to dress that way,…

It occurs to me quite often how many of us spend an enormous amount of time trying to be proactive with people.  If you are a people pleaser like me…

We recently saw a performance of “The Screwtape Letters,” a story by C.S. Lewis which was made into a 90-minute play. It was extraordinary. I would recommend reading the book,…

My brother and I have had issues with giggling for a long time. We have a mutual twisted sense of humor and if one of us goes off the rails…

eing the victim is a lot of fun sometimes. You often get a lot of attention, at least for a while, from people who rally around you, feel sorry for…

It’s funny how things occur to you when you are older, and you think “Wow. If I’d only known.” Am I right? How often did you assume something that you…

Regardless of how old we are or what era we grew up in, we all would like to be more trusting than we really should be. This fall, Michelle and…

There’s a lot of reflecting after one retires from a job, I think.   You, of course, always wonder how things could have been different. You look back on things…