By Glenn Dromgoole Here’s hoping this is an Aha! year for you.  Most of our days, most of our years,most of our lives are punctuated with periods, commas, colons, semi-colons,and question marks. But when we look back, we cherish those special moments when the only appropriate response was, without question,an exclamation point! Glenn Dromgoole’s books include Just Happy to Be Here and A Few Encouraging Words. He and his

By Glenn Dromgoole My grandfather was a gentle and loving man who went blind at the age of forty or so. He died when I was sixteen, but I’ve never forgotten him. Tap.   Tap.   Tap.Slow. Deliberate.One tap. One step.Another tap. Another step.Feeling his way. Carefully. Gently.His cane announces his coming.Tap.   Tap.   Tap. He cannot see me,

By Glenn Dromgoole When my daughter Janet was ten, she suggested one day that we go over to the nearby elementary school and shoot baskets. She was just learning how to play basketball, and it was a beautiful day. So off we went. The school was better than the park, she said, because the school had eight-foot goals as well

By Glenn Dromgoole It’s a new year and a time for resolutions we may or may not actually resolve to keep. Here are 10 of mine – to keep and not to keep: First, I know I won’t: 1. Lose weight.2. Exercise regularly.3. Eat a healthier diet.4. Drink less.5. Work harder.6. Be more tolerant.7. Learn to play the piano.8. Grow

By Glenn Dromgoole The popular Christmas carol, “O Holy Night,” was first performed in 1847 in France and was translated into English eight years later by a Unitarian abolitionist who felt the third verse spoke to the evils of slavery: “Truly He taught us to love one another. His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He

It was Christmas Eve. I was at the office late, putting out the Christmas Day edition at the newspaper where I worked. Everyone else had gone, save one or two other souls who were printing the paper. A woman appeared at the door, desperate. She had just driven back into town after spending the past week with her husband, who

What Christmas is about can be said in two words.Love triumphs.The story of Jesus, whose birth we celebrate, is about that very simple message.Loving is better than hating.Hate destroys. Love builds.Hate divides. Love unites.Hate produces enemies out of friends. Love produces friends out of enemies.Hate arouses suspicion. Love offers forgiveness.Jesus came to say, “There is a better way to live.

By Glenn Dromgoole “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” – William Arthur Ward. I was fortunate, early in my journalistic career, to get to know a great everyday philosopher in William Arthur Ward, a 1940 McMurry grad. His day job was promoting and publicizing the college he worked for — Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. But