“Don’t look at me. Stop looking at me. Don’t, Don’t, DON”T look at me.” These words from one of my dance instructors, as we were in dance hold and he was taking me through a new-to-me quickstep pass. He stopped us. “Why are you doing that?” he asked me, looking me straight in the eye,…

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Like Dorothy creeping through the haunted woods with the tin man on one arm and the scarecrow on the other, I have been creeping through my own woods, lately, wondering when the next scary thing would show up. In these past…

I have hesitated for several days now, thinking, praying, reading.  I am not sure I can say what I want to say correctly, without hurting someone’s feelings, without stepping on some toes. I am not even sure I am gifted enough with words to write accurately what I believe deep in my core. I am…