Watching a young couple navigate their way through the beginning of a new relationship over the past two years has been an interesting experience, and brought back a memory of a quote that I heard years ago. Friedrich Nietzsche originally said “it is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes…
What do you think the easiest way is to beat writers’ block? It seems as though everyone that writes seems to have an opinion on the subject, until it happens to them. One of the easiest ways that I know of is just to keep writing, without forcing yourself to do it at all. I…
Does this sound like you? Over the years, I’ve had a bad habit of getting caught up in “busyness” and just going with the flow, especially when I’m tired, and have found that just like a rip current at the beach, it’s easy to lose sight of one’s bearings. When our children were younger, this…
April 25th, 2019 marks 104 years since the landing at Gallipoli (modern Gelibolu), a peninsula in Turkey. To the west of the peninsula lies the Aegean Sea. To the east is the Dardanelles strait, which connects the Aegean Mediterranean Seas with the sea of Marmara. The landing followed an earlier, unsuccessful naval assault on the…
