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2014 Word of the Year

One of the first things I do when I set out to write, is open a tab on my computer for Dictionary.com. This website is my writing buddy; it offers a plethora of definitions as well as myriad synonyms. I typed the letter D in the URL and up pops ...

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Power of a Story

The power of life and death resides in our tongues.  Words created this world…and we reveal and create reality by speaking.  We reveal the reality of what lies in our hearts by the words we speak.  We expose others to that reality–and sometimes they receive it as their own.  That ...

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“Sweet” Revenge?

“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) Revenge can be a temptation, a natural desire in the face of a threat or a hurtful act on the part of another. It can certainly seem deserved when an injustice is done. But ...

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