Do you know what it feels like to light a candle in the window then wait for someone to come home? Have you ever? I have done so both...

Here we are, days away from the first of the Twelve Days beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 6, the feast of Epiphany, or...

In 2016, I wrote a first-ever Christmas letter. The gist of that letter to friends and family was what we might do in the event of a...

". . .Appalling things had happened since Hitler had come into power ten months earlier; but the range of horror was not yet fully...

B.C., before Covid, before 9/11, There was an "American Dream"narrative many believed. That dream followed Americans from childhood all...

Let's face it: Thanksgiving is not going to be the way you remember it used to be, nor will it be the way you imagine it. Thanksgiving...

For a few hours today, I searched reputable websites for political propaganda speeches given by a dictator called only by his last name:...

This unprecedented week in American history when a former US President became a witness in his own defense in a New York City* court room...

I wondered as I opened my eyes in the predawn darkness why they want to dismantle the State? The Government? Democracy? Would those who...

Hard words to swallow nowadays. They were first spoken 650 years ago during the Black Death plague when day and night a little bell could...

Last night I saw a photo of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin lit up with the Israeli Flag: blue wavy lights with the Star of David...

One of my blog followers shared in the comments a certain motto that he tries to live by. That got me thinking about mottos . . . When my...

The lines aren’t malleable until we decide they are. Deciding is all it takes for long standing institutions built on principle to begin...

It is almost too embarrassing to discuss in public. There is no explanation for it. Nobody asked for it. Fear is behind it. It is one...

The native land of my maternal grandparents sent out a warning to some of its citizens to be aware of new laws that may impact them...

August 31 at 3:30 pm FREE to ALL “Bending Time” at Story and Song by Karen Miller Author event with Marie Laure & Musical Performance by...

Back home in my homeland, the place of my birth, may or may not in the end be my “home." Where is home? That question is burning in the...

It's so easy to stumble into a cafe on every corner in this place. I have done just that most days with journal in hand becoming a...

One of these days I will have to go back to the "state" of Florida where I will not only encounter the heat, but the hotbed of politics....