Yesterday I went to a friends house and changed the brake pads on my car. You have to understand that I may have remembered almost everything from High School, but I didn’t take Shop. Put another way, I have very little ability with the care and maintenance of an automobile. Yet, I actually changed one

Community I grew up in an area that used to be known for its tremendous hospitality. This was before it was marketable for the tourist industry. This was a time decades (and centuries) ago when the islands were isolated from the rest of the world. I don’t mean that it was a backwater sleeping away

I wrote about the power of a name when our son was born. (I gave a secret name to our daughter as well.) Having a name for his condition gave a sense of power over it in a way. It answered a lot of ‘what’ questions, though the ‘why’ questions were not really addressed. A