Essays

JH Mae has an expert opinion on expert opinions!

Hoping for greater spiritual growth, Bernie Pilarski continues his Lenten task.

Have you grown anything spiritually?

Look around you -- it's happening even as you read this...

This Lenten Season, Bernie intends to do something different to remind him of what his life is about...

Just do it when no one is looking...

There's a much wider picture at work in our lives, as wide as the gulf between Life and Death...

"When Worldviews Collide." A look at the way First Nation peoples view their history and their origins.

What will you find if you don't let fear stop you?

Rich or poor, old or young, one thing we all share...

Hold a door open, pick up a book someone has dropped -- yes, the comfort of others!

Wouldn't any woman want to have teeny feet like Barbie?

Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on novels in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He's worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.

This is why Amazon Prime is successful...

A table for two, candlelight, a touch of fingertips...no, wait there's more to love than that...

If only birds could read, we'd put warning labels on the patio door...

Ten years later, twenty years later, such a different life, but still somehow the same...

In this entry, Richard Voza shares some thoughts on the poem's journey with the poet.

Oh, for the chance to get everything you ever wanted...but what do you really want?

Memories have a way of editing themselves -- especially holiday ones.

Micki Morency is a Haitian-American, born in Port-au-prince Haiti. She grew up with six siblings in a very close knit family. She came to the US in 1973 with her family and settled in Massachusetts, graduating from Northeastern University with a BS in Finance in 1981. For many years, she worked as a Bank Auditor, before finding her calling as an advocate for the elderly, the young and the disabled.

Do you see the flaws or the people you think have them?

And are the beauty queens still beautiful? What about at their 40th reunion?

A traveling itch invades, and drags Mr. Donnelly off to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Well, peanut butter can be nutritious, can't it?

Join Phillip Donnelly in his travel over Dublin's Liffey River.

Love, companionship, nuturing...it's all there with Maggie.

This week's featured blog asks an important question of all writers.

Is the trend towards casual dress a good thing?