reckless loving

  I was on an early morning walk yesterday, several miles from home, when I noticed a bird in the road. I assumed that it had been hit by a car, so I wanted to pick it up and lay it gently under a tree, but as I got closer, this gorgeous red-headed woodpecker turned…

A new question

One thing that I keep needing to re-learn, is never to ask myself a question when the answer will not be helpful. Have you ever noticed that the only time you ask yourself the question, "What is wrong with me?" is when you are not feeling good? And what then do we think the answer…

Strangers

I was doing the dishes yesterday afternoon and an interesting thought came to me...one I've never had before. I was thinking about what someone told me that an old high school boyfriend said about me (15 years after we'd broken up) when she ran into him in a bar. The break up was initiated by…

A child’s mind

I started to write yesterday about an experience that I had as a substitute teacher, and found myself off in a completely different direction, which is fine with me, but the memory of one moment, keeps coming up. This particular day, I was assigned to a kindergarten class in Bolton Landing, NY. The teacher was…