I am looking out the living room window. Nobody is on the street and the quiet is daunting. It is a struggle to find peace in the age of the Corona Virus Pandemic. Many of us are trying to stay safe and help our love one’s escape sickness and death. The kids are mostly on...
I wake up in the morning religiously at four thirty AM. I have no need to get up that early. I don’t have a job that requires predawn awakening. I am startled when I open my eyes and begin to have this worried sensation in my body. My stomach is upset and the quiet in...
It was fall 1969 and I was in my dorm room at Kansas Wesleyan University. I was a freshman and just received my report card. I got four F’s and a C. I was amazed that I got a C and the professor told me later that I did well considering I only showed up...
Please read Part One of this story before reading this. At the end of Part One, Ron asked Melinda to share with him how he hurts her with his words and how she would like him to change. Melinda states, “Ron you have said cruel things to me over the years. Whenever you feel I...
The issue of determining if you are in love or intensely addicted to another is an issue that crosses all ethnic, racial, class and age lines. How love is experienced in a modern world that values materialism more than anything else? It is challenging to define love today. I believe love is mutual self-less giving...
