Finding Love

(This is a short remembrance I wrote for the 50th Anniversary of Spring Sing in the Spring of 2007.) I should start this tale with “once upon a time,” for who could have ever dreamed up such places and the incredible cast of remarkable characters and memories that are Spring Sing? Just think of all Read More …

Father Forgets

As the father of two boys, I may have read this short piece too late, but it is not too late to share it with them. Father Forgets written by W. Livingston Larned condensed as in “Readers Digest” Download original Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under Read More …

To Woody Geist

(A short eulogy written for my father-in-law, read at his memorial service in Rochester, Michigan, March 22, 2010) If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  Woody’s life was a song. He came in singing. He left us singing. Read More …

Afraid of the Dark

Breaking the Silence: Facing Our Mortality with Wisdom and Grace Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church 2008 Lenten Series by Bill Howard Thou on my head in early youth didst smile; And, though rebellious and perverse meanwhile, Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee, On to the close, O Lord, abide with me. Ills have Read More …