Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: What? Christmas is Over? Really?
“Oh why can’t every day be like Christmas? For if every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be.”
—If Every Day Was Like Christmas (Red West; 1965)
It’s two days post-Christmas. The tree, if it’s still up, is dropping needles faster than raindrops falling in a monsoon, showering the opened boxes of gifts still sitting beneath it. Maybe the Christmas CDs have been relegated to the back of the shelf and decorations are finding their way into […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]
Tuesday Thoughts: How Do We Put a Silver Lining on the Election?
“America has continued to rise through every age against every challenge, a people of great works and greater possibilities, who have always found the wisdom and strength to come together as one nation, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, to form that more perfect union.”
–President Bill Clinton
First, an admission. I was wrong in thinking abortion wouldn’t play much of a role in the recent election. That issue, and student loan forgiveness, apparently brought out […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Have an Attitude of Gratitude?
When I next write, it will be the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and many of us will still be in our post-Thanksgiving dinner, tryptophan-induced semi-coma. So, I’ll save the silver lining on the recent election for that day, and perhaps avoid the push-back I might get were you in your usual state of alertness!
As our Day of Thanks approaches, I simply want to list some things I’m thankful for, just as I did a year ago. Many of today’s were also […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What? Christmas is Over? Really?
“Oh why can’t every day be like Christmas? For if every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be.”
—If Every Day Was Like Christmas (Red West; 1965)
It’s two days post-Christmas. The tree, if it’s still up, is dropping needles faster than raindrops falling in a monsoon, showering the opened boxes of gifts still sitting beneath it. Maybe the Christmas CDs have been relegated to the back of the shelf and decorations are finding their way into […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]
Tuesday Thoughts: How Do We Put a Silver Lining on the Election?
“America has continued to rise through every age against every challenge, a people of great works and greater possibilities, who have always found the wisdom and strength to come together as one nation, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, to form that more perfect union.”
–President Bill Clinton
First, an admission. I was wrong in thinking abortion wouldn’t play much of a role in the recent election. That issue, and student loan forgiveness, apparently brought out […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Have an Attitude of Gratitude?
When I next write, it will be the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and many of us will still be in our post-Thanksgiving dinner, tryptophan-induced semi-coma. So, I’ll save the silver lining on the recent election for that day, and perhaps avoid the push-back I might get were you in your usual state of alertness!
As our Day of Thanks approaches, I simply want to list some things I’m thankful for, just as I did a year ago. Many of today’s were also […]