Treasures of the Past

Treasures of the Past

I was pleasantly surprised one day when I uncovered a virtual goldmine of reel to reel tapes, and an accompanying tape player while helping my parents in a pre-holiday season clean up. I found them in a basement cupboard, and asked my father if he would mind my...
The Perfect Mistake

The Perfect Mistake

My mother’s father worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates for the clothes his church was sending to orphanages in China. On his way home, he reached into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. When he...
The Law of Giving and Receiving

The Law of Giving and Receiving

When I was a kid growing up in Ohio, I made extra money picking strawberries for a man who had a small farm on the edge of town. He sold his produce from a little roadside stand. Because I was paid by the quart, I figured the faster I picked, the more I would make....
The Perfect Mistake

The Whale

If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle...
The Blindfold

The Blindfold

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun...