I just finished reading “Thin Places” by Jordan Kisner. Subtitled “Essays from In-Between,” it’s a fitting read as we transit into the new year.

The question was posed as to what is the worst thing about censorship. The amusing response was that no one is allowed to answer the question for fear of getting censored.

Some of us are old enough to remember the tv series The Twilight Zone. I can still hear Rod Serling give his clenched-jawed introduction…

The man’s wife said she’d be happy with any gift with lots of diamonds in it, so he wrapped up a pack of playing cards.

The more I walk this path the more I realize this life is really about surrendering control, letting go and just spreading love.

Mid-struggle to stay cheery, I look up from my computer, and lo and behold, the snow is glittering. The cause of this glimmering grace is both moon and sun.

Two kids were arguing. The girl accused the boy of throwing something at her. “I didn’t do it! I never threw that! You can’t prove I threw it,” the boy yelled back.

My friend Page emailed me the other day to point out the misuse of a word in a recent column. I just wish you’d let me edit it before it went to print, he said.

Although many people are looking for truth, it’s been said a mother who is concerned about her child does better research than the FBI.

A teacher asked her students to use the word “beans” in a sentence. One girl said, “My father grows beans.” A boy said, “My mother cooks beans.

Christmas has always been important to me. I love the magical feeling of the Christmas season and the way Christmas music sings to my soul.

Everyone has a history. Everything has a history. Even “history has a history” - as Marilynne Robinson writes in one of her essays.

The cartoon pictured two caged canaries in a coal mine. One canary said to the other, “If you really want to mess them up, lay down and have a nap.”

The federal government is already on track to blow its budget by $20 billion. That’s astonishing when we’re only about halfway through the budget year.

I don’t mind waiting on tables. I just don’t like being undervalued for it. We brag that we are a classless culture, but we often behave as if being a “paying customers” means we pay…

A gift tag read: “I got you a new washer and dryer for Christmas.” The gift contained a clothespin and a flat, round washer used in plumbing projects.

How does a genius become a genius, and what do people say about them? How do they do that genius-thing they do? I invite you to close your eyes and imagine what a genius looks like.

It was asked why military men often marry partners from the foreign countries in which they were deployed? The answer: when they finally come home…

I’ve said it, and I’ve had it said to me: “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Take welding while stoned, for instance: not a good idea. Ok, I was actually torch-cutting.