Thank You for the Light Thank you to all our neighbors and friends for the delightful seasonal light displays we are privileged and pleased to view on our drives and walks home at the end of a long December’s day! While difficult to appreciate as we drive, focused forward, anxious to get home to family […]

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. — Richard Adams, English author.

Hyperbole is a tool often used to make a point. An exaggeration of a situation which adds an emphatic tone to an otherwise mundane story. The children’s tale, Chicken Little, is an example of hyperbole. A lowly acorn falls from the mighty oak and suddenly the entire sky is falling. Alas, it was not so […]

As I left the grocery store, a passing friend stopped to wish me a Merry Christmas. “I’m not exactly in the spirit,” she confided. “What do you think, are we going to have a President who violates the law on his first day?” I laughed, without humor. “If he can break the law and be […]