11. Humor

Going Digital Do you ever just want to reach out and choke your computer? I do. I mean sometimes the damn ... more

8. Retrospect

Without Me From the window in my room I see a world without me. The birds, the trees, the autumn leaves Dancing in ... more

6. Memory

Skinny and Fatty One of the films I most remember as a child was entitled Skinny and Fatty and was shown ... more

4. Emotion

Strong Winds Fear is consuming, and once the mind is overcome with fear, worry pervades. A fearful mind is focused -- ... more

1. Growth

A Wish Suppose I wished upon the moon Then kissed your lips beneath her light. Would the moon be kind to me This late ... more

31. Knowledge

Foundations One of the first college courses that I really enjoyed was Finance. It sounds boring, I know. But finance ... more

28. Education

Crossroads Most often I find driving to work a rather boring routine: turn after turn it’s the same scenery. Even the ... more

10. Interpretation

Places in the Sand The vacant lot across from my boyhood home was mostly covered with brush. It remained that way ... more

23. Art and Morality

A Southern Lady For some months after my mother Emily died, my thoughts and memories of her were mostly wrapped in ... more

13. Art

The Way Out “You don’t know what dark is until you’ve been in a coal mine without a light.” That’s what ... more

11. Poetry and Life

Falling Apart I’m sure you’ve had days when everything just seemed to come unglued – when plans unraveled and the ... more

9. Poetry

[caption id="attachment_1627" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="photograph (c) J. Ashe Bowie"][/caption] The Stength of a Nation Boston’s Bunker Hill Bridge unites the beauty of ... more

30. Ideas

The World of Ideas If you’re like me, your best days are fueled by thoughts of a better tomorrow – a ... more

28. Life

Oops None of us go to bed at night hoping that tomorrow we’ll get up and start making mistakes. But ... more

20. The Principle of Beauty

On the Nature of Things The other day while I was on a walk I noticed something a bit unusual, ... more

19. The Sense of Beauty

Curves In my last post (Day 16. Faith) I wrote of life’s motions, describing some of them as circular and curved ... more

16. Progress

Circles Most of life’s activities are recurrent. Some things we do every day, some once a week or once a month, ... more

15. Faith

Twisted Colors It was just yesterday that I wrote about puzzles. Well this morning I opened a small package in the ... more

14. Experience

Puzzled At one time or another you’ve probably seen one, a Chinese puzzle-box. Essentially it’s a decorative wooden box that locks ... more

13. Hope

Something to Smile About My friend Terry is a simple man. He treasures the things we should all love: friendship, a ... more