Significance usually produces success, at some level. . .and at some moment in time, and maybe even more; but not vice versa.  Success does not necessarily produce significance! It’s always been my great desire to produce both, even if not simultaneously.

Janet and I had dinner with a friend of ours at our house tonight.     It was one of those spontaneous things on a Sunday night that simply came from one thing or another and lent to having dinner.  She is divorced with minor children and is talking about somebody she had met a [...]

If ever I’d thought that deluge would roar;      That blistering blizzard of sleet. . . If ever I’d thought those winds would blow;      Those ravaging waves complete!    Could I ever have thought I’d deliver us all;      With safe passage through that heat? What arrogance would I have shown;      As if it was [...]

We had quite a bit of drama in the household a few evenings ago. Isabella, newly installed into the 2nd grade, expected some family and neighborhood lay-downs when she started pitching magazine subscriptions for the annual contest. Apparently, depending on how many subscriptions you sell, and how much money you collect in a two-week period of time, [...]