Life after disability: can it be a new kind of wholeness?

October 7, 2025
We’re not always prepared for the ways life shifts. One day, we move through the world as we always have—walking with ease, using our hands without thinking, seeing clearly. And then something happens. An accident, a diagnosis, a progression of aging. Suddenly, the body becomes unfamiliar...

Breakfast

March 17, 2009
Corned beef hash. Green grits.It was a tough plate to look at this morning for one of the guests at our table.He'd imbibed five triple shots last night.Fortunately, he...

Hell – a reserved space

March 17, 2009
There is a special place in Hell reserved for the inventor of these trumpeting...

The Imperial Clydesdales

March 17, 2009
Even the littlest Irish revelers LOVED the Clydesdales, and their Dalmation, who rode perched up top, looking very cute. Of course, we know that Dalmations are adorable,...

No one parties like the Irish

March 17, 2009
Straight from St. Patrick's Day parade in Savannah, where there are usually 250,000 revelers here to celebrate.  The parade is now 3 hours long, down from FOUR...

It’s haunted

March 16, 2009
or so they say. It was the ghost house featured in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. And it was the prototype that Disney tweaked to make its Haunted Mansion. You...

Peaceful

March 16, 2009
Savannah is such a peaceful little city. The Spanish moss reminds me of my years in Tallahassee, another lovely, peaceful little city. Or at least it was in the...

Savannah: It’s ON!

March 15, 2009
St. Patrick's Day partiers are here and it is a sight to behold. By the way, that t-shirt says "It's all about getting wasted," and from what I can see, it's...

Patience

March 13, 2009
No. That's wrong. Waiting does not make anything more exciting.Patience. Not my long suit. Not at all.I hate waiting.And I hate to be kept waiting.When people are...

Motives: Ulterior and Otherwise

March 13, 2009
No one likes to think that someone wishes them ill. But it happens. Mala suerte, in Spanish. Bad luck.Usually people like that feel that someone else's good fortune...

Secrets and Lies

March 12, 2009
It seems that secrets and lies are always part of life. There are big secrets, like the one my friend's mom and sister kept from her. The sister had a son out of...

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