Clumsy. What a quirky little word to describe someone who can't seem to walk through a doorway without whacking herself on the arm; someone who will most likely trip over anything in her path. Or who learned early in her cooking attempts to turn the skillet handle so it doesn't poke out over the edge of the stove. Someone like me. Ouch! My husband learned early in our marriage he had to pick up everything on the floor in the middle of the pathway from this room to that. Many

Most of us in our work-a-day world know exactly what the word hectic means. Crazy days. Interruptions. Busy-ness. Phones ringing. Too much to do and not enough time to do it. Now add in the consequences of a society living in fear of Covid. Perhaps you don't have enough people to run your business and you are the one stuck trying to cover two or three jobs at once. Or maybe you deal with the public and have begun to notice that people are becoming short-tempered and impatient

It's not surprising to anyone these days that kindness is in short supply in our world. If you haven't been living under a rock these last 18 months, you've seen protests turn to riots. A tiny virus makes the world sick and kills a larger-than-we'd-ever imagined bunch of people. Political unrest. People rob stores in broad daylight in some west coast cities and no one bothers to stop them. Others break into fist fights over something as silly as a birthday party. Social media