Big Thought Most people who knew her, including me, thought that my mother was a very intelligent woman. The smarter the person was, the more extraordinary they thought my mother. She had touches of brilliance, a great, droll sense of…

Is it more dangerous not to think or to think? Probably more dangerous not to think than to sit down and think about it, as a first step toward tackling it. Here’s something: - “Should I keep writing a screenplay…

The heart of the matter Today when putting away some clothes I saw my mom’s clothes hanging there. When my mom died, I asked for her things to be sent to me. I had no idea what would be in…

Guilt came coming To see if he could woo “Begone,” Shame said I’ve had enough of you. Guilt slithered over to see if Hate would play “You have one minute, twerp To say what you would say” “Don’t you ever…

Was there something wrong with Nemesis Rassov because she felt no guilt ? In fact she felt glee when one of assignments was successful. And we’re talking about the taking of a human life here.

There is something burning, a fire. You can smell it sometimes in the early morning, in the late afternoon there is sometimes a tendril of something dark across the incarnadine sky. Something awful, an inferno, has been deliberately started and…

The black and white photographs of Japanese “picture brides” show lovely young women in dressy kimonos, their thick, glossy dark hair curving up from their foreheads to the crowns of their heads then gathered into small bun at the top.…

Nemi’s family was her entire heart. She knew no other. Surely she would one day have a family of her own - though to find a man who could even begin to measure up to her wonderful father and brothers…

write beauty into being read the tattoo in invisible ink she had it there to remind her on her skin given to her in this life our greatest and largest protection in our bodies skin we don't love enough our…

Write Beauty into Being. It was May 10, 1940. Great Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill was sworn in. For the last eight months, Great Britain and German traded bombs, destroying military targets. This day Great Britain gave the order…

Every morning now, for the last several years, I go outside, to my backyard usually but elsewhere in we’re traveling, with my dog Boo and read a poem aloud. First I look at the garden, at how the two citrus…

Every Rassov mission throughout history was immortalized on parchment, complete with brilliantly colored panels of intricate storytelling. The blood-letting in each panel was particularly vibrant,incarnadine, as were the robes of each legendary Rassov commissioned to perform the cleansing. Interestingly, the…