I saw no clown costumes this Halloween. Did you? It’s rough to be clowns these days, with news of red-wigged thugs in masks terrorizing citizens in several communities. Ronald McDonald is silent too. Rodeo clowns and circus clowns are figuring out how to do their acts without frightening families. I wager birthday party clowns are…
A Proverb says if we don’t keep our promises we are like clouds without rain. When gardens are the children in our lives, those rain clouds are needed regularly for good growth. I made a fair promise to a five-year-old, and I let her down. I was a cloud without rain. Here is what happened….
At my recent writer’s critique group, one woman asked her colleagues to critique some pages about a dystopia world in a Redwood forest. We gave her feedback, but I curiously watched and listened as several writers rhapsodized over the tree power they experienced among California’s redwoods. One woman said, You can walk among these…