“When it rains, it pours.” Yes, it’s a cliché. But it’s a good one. And according to Dictionary.com it means: “When something good or bad occurs, it usually occurs more than once and often within a short period of time.” So far this summer I’ve experienced the cliché in a bad way. I’ve had a deluge of difficulties. My month of June began with my twin daughters graduation from high school. … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Keep from Becoming a “Bah Humbug”
Recently I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. In it he recounts his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. I find it amazing that anyone at all could survive the brutality that the Jews experienced during the holocaust. I couldn't keep from wondering how Elie lasted two years in spite of beatings, starvation, freezing cattle … [Read more...]