Feeling For, Feeling With, Felt For
All are good, even necessary. All can detract, if not practiced thoughtfully. (General disclaimer. I’ve tried to write on this subject at least twice in the past few years. None of it ever felt like it got finished, and, I don’t claim any knowledge of this subject, having done very little if any research onRead More
Something about a Woman
It generally happened somewhere midway through the school year, that my students would become curious about a certain subject. I suppose, if we were to be real here, they had been curious about it for some time already, and maybe…
Interested
“Did you notice the look on your niece’s face yesterday?” “When.” “When you had her little boy on your lap.” “Oh, you mean when I was reading the book to him?” “Yeah.” “Are you talking about when he started pointing…
Whether to Laugh or Cry
I see three of them. Sitting in a booth at Pizza Hut. They are friends; they are in a good mood. They eat their pizza, and they talk lots. And every little bit, they break into a chuckle, sometimes a…