May 31, 2010 | Personal Blog
Flickr photo by mcmrbt, creative commons As I remember it, she was around 19 or 20, about my age at the time, and as she led us through the military cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, past the thousands of crosses to my grandfather’s grave, I sort of wished...
May 17, 2010 | Personal Blog
Check out the romantic thing my handsome prince said to me this morning after he got out of bed: “Are you okay?” “Yeah. Why?” “Cause you look like a dead fish lying there. Like somebody just jerked you up out of the ocean and your mouth...
May 14, 2010 | Personal Blog
Isn’t that a lovely hairdo? Not really, but I’m going with it because it’s partly my fault. At least I allowed it. Actually I enabled it. And not just for my bald-ish boy, but for five other young men who once sported beautiful, free flowing tresses....
May 12, 2010 | Personal Blog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charliedees/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 Whoop-de-doo! The Cannes film festival starts today! Did you know? (Do you care? ) I ate my morning oatmeal with Matt Lauer, and as we chatted with Cate Blanchett and Russel Crowe about the Cannes experience, I...
Apr 26, 2010 | Personal Blog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 At first, Howard seemed to be a thorn in my side. “You’re just not here enough,” he said the minute I walked into the gym. “This should be a full time job. Not part time.” “Hi Howard,” I said, stringing the...
Apr 12, 2010 | Personal Blog
Flickr photo from Prisoner 5413 Her name was Eula, and she told me she was seventy four years old. “I never imagined I would be living like this,” she said, looking around at the Sunday school room our church had made into a shelter for homeless families for the week...