Friendship is often about sharing good times and the occasional lifting of spirits when need be. But sometimes, you need more from your friends. Perhaps you need a loan or a reality check. Maybe you are hesitant to ask for what you truly need and yet your life circumstances have put you in a corner. Sometimes it is almost too hard to ask for what you need and sometimes it is almost too hard to receive. I remember once reflecting on the fact that my older sister’s home might b

Recently I received an email from some friends who had been looking through old photo albums. Going through the albums, they got to reminiscing about their life together. They each thought that the best day of their life was the day they got married. Thankful for that occasion and its value to them, they were writing some of their close friends to thank them for sharing in that day some years ago.Wedding days ought to be ones of great celebration and hold a significant presen

Water is soothing in so many ways. First off, we actually need to drink it. I imagine there are some people that only drink other liquids, but for the vast majority of us water is something we depend on. It belongs to that select group along with air, food and social media. We either have too much of it or not enough. We drink it, we wash with it, we grow food with it, we cook in it. We swim in it, fish in it, play in it. We build ships and travel over it and in it. We build

Fontalitis I have Fontalitis. Whew. I am glad to get that off my chest. I didn’t realize I had it until recently when I was glancing at an ad and realized I could not immediately read the font. It wasn’t my eyesight that was the problem. I could see clearly, I just could not discern the name of the product. I don’t know if you too suffer from this dis-ease, but if you do, I want to send a consoling message. I can’t remember when I first heard the word “font,” but it wasn’t al

Camping wears me out. I spent 4 nights camping out at a music festival and now I am in recovery mode. Music festival camping doesn’t really fulfill my image of a small campsite by a lake free of mosquitoes and other camping infiltrators. Yet even that idyllic camping situation wears me out. On one level I understand that I am not used to sleeping in a bag close to the ground with a tent protecting me from some of nature’s elements. Just the fact that my surroundings are unfam