Posts Tagged ‘mark’s remarks’

One of the things I miss about teaching is the funny stuff we used to do in my classroom.  I had a cool calendar that I got sometime in the…

A few weeks ago, I bumped into someone who mentioned a column I wrote years back – something about narcissism.  To be honest, I barely remembered it. But we got…

Do you ever get that weird little itch to scare yourself? Not like full-on horror movie trauma — just a good, spooky story that sends a chill down your spine…

It seems to me that people get farther and farther away from God with each passing day. I read some of the drivel on Facebook and see some of the…

John Adams is my favorite president for many reasons, plus he had an excellent taste in women.  Specifically, he married Abigail Adams — the woman who could’ve been running the…

Why bother? The older I get, the less energy I have for conversations that feel like I’ve been cornered at a family reunion by someone who wants to tell me…

Sometimes when I tell my kids stories about what life was like when I was growing up, they just blink at me like I’ve started speaking Latin. Every now and…

Sometimes when I tell my kids stories about what life was like when I was growing up, they just blink at me like I’ve started speaking Latin. Every now and…

I got a hold of one of the chairs that we used to sit in at Northside School in 1972. It was a little red wooden chair.   People who…

Do you know people who are so hard-headed that they seem as if they will never get it? I like to think I could easily qualify if I didn’t have…

Do you have times you do something, feel guilty about it, and then realize “Hey, I can do that, I’m an adult.” Since I am now semi-retired with a bit…

I am often amazed at the memory and what it keeps or kicks out of the retrieval  bank.  I’ve heard older people tell me all the time how they remember…