247 steps from the front door of our rental cottage to the Marginal Way…the path that winds along the coastline from Perkins Cove into Ogunquit. Just finished three days of dawn walks to rocks there; rocks that make exceptional seating for coffee and morning devotionals. The sunrises were pretty, but the lack of clouds rendered the colors less than…
Phone calls that you receive at 4:15 am are never good ones. So when I groggily grabbed my phone on July 14th, 2025, and saw that the caller was Charter Senior Living, I knew the conversation would be about my mom and would not be pleasant. I wasn’t totally surprised to hear that my mother, Margaret Burke, was…
We were at The Puffy Muffin for our customary Saturday breakfast. (I know it sounds like a “frufru” place, but they have really good, big breakfasts.) It seems that I have this bad, or at least very annoying, habit of resting my chin in my hand. Diane told me for at least the tenth time this year: “I know you…
Maybe we all struggle at times … wanting to know the end result while we are still in the midst of the process. I had this real struggle in 2016. Not proud of that struggle, but maybe someone can relate. The Target Struck?I guess it is natural to wonder. At this stage of life When Medicare is available,And a…
Most mornings that Diane and I are in town, now that Spring is here, you’ll find me on the little balcony outside my home office enjoying a cup of coffee with my reading. You are welcome to join me…really…just need to get here between 6 and 7:30. If you can’t make it, we would…