Remember the Serenity Prayer:   God grant me the Serenity to Accept the things I cannot change the Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to know the difference.

To me, watching others – especially people we love – is a fascinating experience. I had such an experience last week. A relative of mine had surgery on Wednesday. Surgery is surgery, but this was a non-invasive procedure requiring an overnight hospital stay and a 4- day recovery period. The person having this surgery put [...]

As a child of about 10, I remember listening to the noisy mocking bird in the middle of the night as I lay in my bed on the second floor of my parent’s house on the farm. All was still except for that bird, the crickets and other night sounds of a warm summer night. [...]