carolkean

"We could be so much better" - true - but we could also be so much worse.

To be reunited in heaven with our lost loved ones - and here on earth with our lost socks! Plus, how to repurpose socks as afghans!

Slipstream, "the new weird," is a fun genre whatever you call it, and this novel is a classic!

Bean counters have their purpose in life, but some take it way too far.

"Hive Gardeners are Gentle Souls. I don't know any gardener here who's an asshole." Well, hello...

Embark on an adventure without leaving your house: pick up a book and GO

Math is god. Math is magic. Felix Flicker is a god, or at least, a physics professor with mind-blowing powers of persuasion.

Oceans are endless with no horizon is in sight and I'd be hungry for land if ever I set sail on the sea...

My love of the woolly mammoth began with Jonnie Boor and continues with The Brothers Cro-Magnon

Nobody "knows" if prayer changes anything, or if there's life after death, but we can hope and believe.

How long oh Lord before I can walk down to the river once more? Today was the day, I thought, but the price was steep.

Rejoice and be glad, for we are alive and hearts are still beating, whatever else is going on today.

If you are inexplicably drawn to something, chances are, you encountered it in infancy but didn't consciously remember

Muzzle, or muffler, or social filter: are we "door mats" if we choose not to speak with tact and restraint?

Hard to get up? Mom had to get up AND get the corn-burning stove going again. We wore mittens in the kitchen....

Leaves carpet the chilled earth, crisp in the October sun, crunching underfoot, leaving the trees behind

Invites in the mail, and loved ones who don't make it to the next milestone....

The middle child, sandwiched between sisters--the "filling"--was a whole other kind of sandwich

Do icons, candles, beads and things boost the power of prayer? Does prayer materially alter anything? Dunno but I pray anyway.

The dust settles, the bills eventually get paid. Dying is expensive. Let us rethink our customs, bury our traditions.