Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
Home. A weighty concept in some ways, but also tending toward the sentimental. It can connote fortification, shelter….and yet, homey can be quaint and trivial. We invent and reinvent our...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Family
This photo challenge is one of those too-easy ones. What photographer doesn’t have a picture of his/her family? So, how do I do it uniquely? Well, the simple answer is that every family is unique, so...
View ArticleMedia and Mania
My laptop perches on my warmly-wrapped lap. Sunshine covers the foot of the bed. Outside my window, sparrows twitter in the snow-dusted branches. Steve and I tap our separate keyboards, sending muffled...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Signs
Some signs are meant to be helpful, but come across as completely confusing. Like this one in the Milwaukee airport, just past the security checkpoint. It took me a while to think through this one....
View ArticleFarming a Dancing Landscape
Some Thoughts on Poverty – Spiritual Lessons from Nature Series This article appears in this month’s issue of The BeZine. To read the entire issue, click HERE. Raising a child is not rocket science....
View ArticleThink Continually of Those At Risk
I wrote this article for The Be Zine whose November issue was dedicated to “At-Risk Youth”. Under the light of the half moon, David Attenborough speaks to the camera on Christmas Island, surrounded by...
View ArticleHappy Centennial + 8, Girl Scouts of America!
On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of America with a troop of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia. I became a Brownie Girl Scout on Jan. 21, 1970. My mother was already a leader with...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Distance
“God is watching us…from a distance.” ― Julie Gold Tina is our host for this week’s photo challenge, and she takes up an appropriate theme: Distance, using quotes from a song by Julie Gold. Tina...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Old and New
Newton B. Drury, National Park Service Director, 1940-1951: “The American way of life consists of something that goes greatly beyond the mere obtaining of necessities of existence. If it means...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Found in the Neighborhood
“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? It’s a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty, Would you be...
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