I’m percolating on a blog about high wires and mustard seeds. Meanwhile, you might enjoy reading this piece by licensed clinical social worker Nancy Norman. Used with permission, Nancy offers 10 tips to help you throw off grudges. Those resentment gremlins like to hide in soul closets, year after year. Sometimes they ambush when least expected. Perhaps 2017 will be…
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…
Meryl Streep’s new movie is one I thought I would not like. To my surprise, Florence Foster Jenkins is a thumbs up with great acting, intriguing true story, and authentic 1944 set design and costumes. Streep’s singing especially produces laughs. The movie is constructed to make viewers empathetic to delusional Florence, even as they laugh…