"The first step felt like stepping into the abyss because I couldn’t feel the leg." Liz had suffered a stroke and was talking about learning to walk again, using her disabled limb. "When I realized I do have a leg to stand on, I could put my weight down on it." Only as she believed …
Author Archives: Karen
Learning Strategies
My husband, Jerry, has been doing Cryptogram and Jumble puzzles for many years, but they just frustrate me. I see no strategies to begin an attack on the mixed up letters of the Jumble. Trying to make a word out of the nonsense letters is like trying to assemble a puzzle without a picture. Occasionally …
Sowing and Reaping
When we plant seeds, we fertilize with faith. A small seed looks nothing like the full-grown plant. We rely on the packet photos to inform our planting. We exercise faith in the seller, that they are selling us a real possiblity that, given the right conditions, the tiny pieces of organic matter in the paper …