Voice & Vision Blog

What if you clicked open your news feed one morning and saw your name there . . . . . . followed by your own obituary. You might pinch yourself to make sure you hadn’t died without knowing it. And then you’d probably keep reading to see what had been written about your life. What if you didn’t like what it said? This actually happened to Dr. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. He opened his newspaper one morning, and there it was—the announcement of his death. (His brother...

When times are hard, laughter is—as the old saying goes—the best medicine. I can always count on the Seinfeld show to make me laugh. If I come across an episode while I’m channel surfing, I can’t help but watch it to the end. Some of the Seinfeld episodes I find the funniest are the ones that feature the late Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza. Frank is loud, often obnoxious, and is always coming up with off-the-wall schemes: including ideas for new businesses, new holidays, bizarre inventions,...

Such a difficult year. So much out of the ordinary and out of our control. As I tried to get excited about Christmas, I wondered: How could Christmas be as it should be, MERRY, when almost nothing in 2020 has been as it should have been? Merry /ˈmerē/Adjective 1: full of gaiety or high spirits 2: marked by festivity or gaiety Festivity? Gaiety? High spirits? At the close of a brutal year? It felt like too much to hope for. But then my daughters had a bright...