A soldier doing the job, David Bednar. Photo credit Ken Miller.

A Soldier’s Memorial Day

The passage of time is the only way to see something in retrospection. Memorial Day is a good day to look back on a soldier’s war experience and share the thoughts a… Read full post »

In the awakening distance

where the young are in between

the aging forces of their nature

and the child hood grace of being

the merging cyclone of their

youth entwines

the distant threads

of history and memory

music to the dead

while each a fearsome stance

proclaims, "I am grown up!"… Read full post »

If you were born at a certain time in the fifties, chances are you might have grown up with some manners. Not everyone, but most people did teach their children some manners. The fifties boom time was an opportunity for families to grow and neighborhoods to multiply. I was the child… Read full post »

Mother’s Day is a special day for me as it is a constant reminder of the birth of my twin sons. They were born on this day 20 years ago. This weekend we will have a dinner and our usual family time and I will cherish it as I always do.… Read full post »

 In light of today's (4/28/12) article on Komen in the New York Times, which talks about their reduced support and still tarnished image, I wanted to repost my article about them from February. Why? What I highlighted then is being highlighted in today's writing by Natasha Singer. "Founder's Syn… Read full post »

“It is we who win”

Today Pete Seeger, the 92 year old American folk singer can feel very proud.  Music led  by Norwegian folks singer Lillebjorn Nilsen inspired by Pete's song "Rainbow Race" was s… Read full post »

Gustav Klimt is one of my most favorite painters. In fact, I could say that when I first discovered him, it was around the time when I first felt like an independent, continental, adventurer. I was head over heels in love with someone who has remained a life long friend, and… Read full post »

Vatican Reprimands U.S. Nuns For "Radical Feminist Themes"

The church says it discovered "serious doctrinal problems" during an investigation into an influential group of American nuns.

This post originally appeared on my blog, January 26, 2011.  

 Pictures from our extended trip to Lubeck, Germany in May 2011 are added to this post at it's conclusion.

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As of 2010, there are 22,000 Stolpersteine placed in various countries in Europe. That number grows as more… Read full post »

In the early morning hours of April 15 1912, the Titanic, which had hit an underwater spur of an iceberg, sank.

Many of us are familiar with the disaster. Since it is the hundred year anniversary of the tragic event, there were many news articles about it both here and abroad.… Read full post »

 Ben Sen  wrote a post about his experiences with synchronicity last July. He said that "according to Carl Gustav Jung, a synchronicity is an event where the two worlds meet--the seen and the unseen.  It's a nexus, a "gateway," a visit to the matrix, totally inexplicable for any ration… Read full post »

Dear Laura:

I have never written to you before, but you know, today is the day for something new. I am in the midst of a war you see. I am wondering how it got started and what we could have done to prevent it and I confess, I thought of… Read full post »

There are no pictures of this event to share, none that I took, anyway. Oh, we took some before we left to attend, but I could not seem to participate in the snap fest at my sister's house. Friends of my niece, the pregnant dentist, took plenty of pictures of the… Read full post »

 I was outraged when this happened. I sent an email to protest it to the wrong police department per a facebook friends address for the department. That turned out not to be too bad of a thing. If everyone did as I did with her posting, then hundreds of letters went… Read full post »

I grew up on the south side, in a suburb of Chicago. I was actually born in Indiana but moved to our small Dutch heritage town for my formative years. We lived two blocks from the Catholic church which we attended and its attached grade school which we also attended. I… Read full post »

 Mahnmal Verfolgte des Naziregimes: Memorial to those persecuted by the Nazi regime. This bronze work is found off the Mill Pond in Teterow Germany. It was created by Wolfgang Eckardt who was a sailor on a WW II German U-Boot. After his war experience he was moved to create this… Read full post »

 Fukushima. Fukushima. One year ago, that was one Japanese word that we all knew and we all knew how to pronounce. It was the beginning of a time that we thought might come someday, but that we all have dreaded looking at in our own futures. The dawn of nuclear… Read full post »

 Today, March 8,… Read full post »

1. Your main trait: Creative intellectual mind.

2. The quality you like best in a man: Intelligence.

3. The quality you like best in a woman: Intelligence.

4. Your main flaw:  Over thinking.

5. Last time you cried: When I left my daughter at school in another state./… Read full post »