My bare feet made their way up the ladder, mortified to back out now. A jump from the high-diving board. Could I pull it off with a secret fear of heights? A public embarrassment to turn around and go the same way I had arrived—down the ladder and past the people waiting in line. And I just knew as pool-siders gawked behind sunglasses, What a scaredy-cat! would also cross their minds. My twin sister and I hung out at the local pool several days a week every summer. This adventure Continue Reading
2019 Inventory / 2020 Vision
The word “Inventory” invariably comes to mind every year at the end of December. Gone is the hustle-and-bustle of the Christmas season, and as we lounge together as a family in our pajamas on Christmas day, the reality that another year end is one week away always invites me to take inventory. As I was looking for definitions of the word inventory, the intrinsic meaning of the word in latin inventarium jumped from the page: Late Middle English: from medieval Latin inventorium, Continue Reading
