My little friend Prudence is 3 years old.  She's in the process of being potty-trained.  So the other night her mom told her to go use t...

In a world where (aggressively shifting) vocabularies rule our comprehension and communication is often compressed into a “tweet” or a “tex...

"I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey. You wore blue." "Yes. I put that dress away. When the Germans march o...

Several of my friends are learning about asking for help.  And when such dear friends are learning something, so am I.  They pose challengi...

I wore a hat today - a cute pale blue newsboy cap with a bit of bling. It was a fun accessory to complement my outfit.  But that brim got in...

The weekend before Christmas I attended a holiday concert.  The band leader introduced one song, sung in another language, saying it was so...

I don't know how "tan" developed into "toe" in the name for that plant you kiss under at Christmastide.  But in Old ...

I was thinking about our term in simple math for the part of an equation following the equals sign.  Generally, we call this the “answer”. ...

She stood on the edge, one foot raised above the rug.  That rug captivated her attention so that she first stared, turned shyly away, then w...

Under the Colorado government heretofore, the  constitutional rights  of unborn persons in Colorado have not been upheld.   Colorado State...