A Beacon of Light

“Kids say the  darndest things.”Art Linkletter When my mother moved into the Villa Siena Retirement Community in 2012, it came as a bit of a surprise to my siblings and me to hear that Mom had met a “friend.” John was a few years older than Mom and had moved into the retirement facility when…

“Writing is an  act of faith.”  E.B. White For almost twenty years, I’ve been writing articles for my blogs — first for Attitude of Gratitude (approximately 2,000 posts), then for A Beacon of Light (628 posts, so far). Every now and then, in place of an article, I share an inspirational quote, as I did…

“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”George Burns I’m home. Having spent the past three weeks walking the streets of Nassau, talking with friends from St. Augustine’s College, and reminiscing about a one-year experience I had more than fifty years ago, I’m grateful to be back in the Bay Area. I thoroughly enjoyed…

“Maybe that’s the  best part of going  away for a vacation —  coming home again.”   Madeline L’Engle This morning, I’m packing-up to go home. This cozy condominium cottage has been my home for the past three weeks. While it is privately owned, it is located in the midst of three residential rental communities — Colony…

“Behind every  successful manthere is a woman.”   Mark Twain For the past three weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting up with quite a few of my former students. The youngest of them are now 62 years of age. Doing the book signing events at the Logos Book Store on Saturday and at Saint…

“I regarded home as  a place I left behind  in order to come back  to it afterward.”   Ernest Hemingway Over the past fifty years, whenever I’ve returned to Nassau for a visit, I’ve always had a sense that I’m home. This is even more true when I visit the campus of Saint Augustine’s College. Any…

“A town isn’t a  town without  a bookstore.”   Neil Gaiman Nassau has a bookstore. Actually, it has a number of bookstores, but Logos Book Store, located in the Harbor Bay Shopping Center on East Bay Street, is considered to be the best. This will be the venue for my book signing event this afternoon. Ricardo,…

“He should first  show them in deeds  rather than words  all that is good and holy.” Rule of Saint Benedict Father Elias Achatz, O.S.B. was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He entered the Benedictine Order at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. Much to his surprise, he was assigned to live at Saint…