Priscilla’s World
Autumn Days
The windows of my apartment look out over the Courtyard. There is only one real problem of living in this retirement community -- there just aren't any birds to look at in our Courtyard. But this morning when I looked out my bedroom window I was stunned to see so many...
Traveling Across the Pacific
In January 1983 Lyn Mathews, the wife of the Dean of the Institute of Cultural Affairs asks me to go to the Kingdom of Tonga in the Pacific to participate in the Pacific Training School. I pause for a minute, ask her a couple of questions and then say, “Yes.” I want...
The Wonder of Childhood
Smooth roads, bumpy holes, rocks in the middle of the road and straight, unspectacular paths guide me for eight decades. How do I talk about faith in my life? I have lived a long time and I want to pause and think about that. It all began long ago, in March 1931....
Happy New Year – 2018
Wishing a Merry Christmas and a great New Year has set my mind to spinning. Sixty-four years since my first date request from Rodney Wilson. That was to go out for a hamburger after operetta rehearsal on Wednesday night. He didn’t know that mid-week nights were off...
Where We Live
It occurred to me recently that we all live on one small blue marble traveling through the space of the universe. Some days I forget that fact and think I'm just located in Prairie Village Kansas. Not! Who was the writer a few years ago who explained our impact on the...
Life is an Ongoing Journey
I sit at 31,000 ft. looking out the window of a Boeing 737 aircraft. All I see are wisps of white cloud patches miles below me. Their scalloped puffy surfaces look like welcome mats to bounce across. We’re flying home after two weeks of watching a perpetually changing...