Have you ever experienced what seemed a degree of separation? It felt too amazing to be a coincidence? It happened to me as I chatted with my seatmate on my return flight to Washington state from Virginia, and while it may have been a degree of separation – multi-layered actually – it was definitely a God thing. I recently traveled …
Happy Bday Moby-Dick ~ “Call Me Ishmael”
I could not help but notice that today is the anniversary of the publication of one of my favorite novels, Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville in 1851. Though “Call me Ishmael” became one of the most famous opening lines in literary history, the novel was not a commercial success and it was only after Melville’s death that his literary genius in …
THE MISSING LINK: A Rose by Any Other Name
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” She spoke of Romeo, of course, but what is true of a rose may not be true when you try to apply it to a person. Of course, if she meant what lies within each of us is what matters, I’d have to agree. …
THE MISSING LINK: Is Wanderlust a Gene?
If wanderlust is a gene, I must have it. I have a passion for travel, but I don’t do it enough – though some would say I do. I was born in a car to a father who was a career Navy pilot, and a mother who could make a home anywhere. By the time I was fifteen, I’d live …