Note: I wrote this piece in December 2019, well before the days of COVID-19 and when separate meant safe. This holiday season will be different, yet the feelings and memories it will bring are needed now more than ever because light pushes the shadows back, leaving goodness in its place. As a society, are we […]
A recent Wall Street Journal article said that Nevada was joining more than a dozen other states and dropping the parallel parking requirement from its driver’s license test. No more will the nervous determination of that first-time driver be challenged. Many of us remember that moment when we shifted to reverse, turned our head and […]
“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility,” Tom Brokaw once wrote. I believe this quote from Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation, could now be amended given the times we’re in. The words “praise” and “presence ” would replace the words “lament” and “absence”. I believe when […]
Given the current homebound life, some have taken to filling time with all those things they wanted to get to but never did. For many, that means time is filled with personal endeavors rather than those once shared with others. Books are being opened now more than before. The TV is perpetually on — not […]
The other day I was having a conversation with a friend, and he asked how I was faring in this time of uncertainty. I said I was doing all right, but that I have found I really miss handshakes and hugs. He laughed as he found it amusing. I laughed, too, but I still miss […]
To those students that graduated this year — Bravo! You’ve done it. Not only did you navigate years of hallways, books and sometimes socially awkward situations, you persevered through this haze of microbes disrupting life right now. Because of your parents, classmates, teachers and a supportive community, we all are one step closer to a […]
Remember when you misplaced your rabbit’s foot? You scoured every inch of your room and then moved through the rest of the house searching for it. Nothing. Then outside you went, past your bike laid on its side. Curled baseball cards hanging by clothespins on tire spokes looked up at you as around they went, […]
Plenty has changed over the course of a month. Life as we knew it has stopped. After a brief pause to regroup, some monumental restrictions have been enacted that will prolong our return to normal. But we will return to normal. That’s the good news. The bad news is: Sports of all kinds are on […]
If a chair is broken, you fix it. If a seam has come undone, you sew it. If a clock has the wrong time, you adjust the hands to make it right again. And if a neighbor or friend needs help, you help. Every morning the numbers are higher than they were when you went […]
Classmates and teachers we have known are like chapters in a big book of life we carry. On some of the pages are interactions or relationships we might have had with any of them: a hug, a smile, a stern look, laughter, tears, winning ways, some losses, love and breakups, friends, foes, mentors and icons. […]
