By now, we all know Leonard Nimoy died last week. He was eighty-three. While most people will remember him as Star Trek’s iconic Spock, I admired him for a different reason.
Leonard Nimoy’s motto was four simple words:Continue Reading
Kristen Cronin is a character in Not Without My Father, but she should be a photographer. The world is flawless when seen through her eyes. She claims her pictures sing because of the love she exudes toward their most frequent subject: her three-year-old son (and my guideson) Cooper. She snapped this shot when she and Cooper walked with me on the Natchez Trace last year.Continue Reading
I met reader Karen Snyder when I was thirty-two. She and I worked at the same law firm: she as paralegal; I as administrator. Managing lawyers is like herding cats….no cliche there. I boiled my days in pots of stress, and I was seldom happy.
Karen was always a happy face. It lit up my office (well really, it was a closet). Every time she poked her head around the doorframe or sat across from my desk, my day improved. She doesn’t know how much she helped me endure those ten long months. I’ll always be grateful for her.Continue Reading