EVERY DAY’S A NEW DAY by Deborah Elliott—Upton Another online blogger states sales of books and magazines are up almost 18% from last year. It seems reading is being rediscovered as a valid form of less expensive entertainment. In a so-sagging-it’s-slouched-already economy, the world needs something to make everything else go away. In the past, […]

FEELING PHILATELIC by Deborah Elliott-Upton Outside my window snow is being carried away by a swift wind — my meteorologist friend tells me they are flurries, which seems such an innocent word for such a wicked event. The temperature gauge outside my home reads twenty-eight degrees. I’m glad I’m inside where my sweater and tights […]

WRITING ON THE WALL by Deborah Elliott-Upton When we started removing the wallpaper, I was surprised to see the markings the previous owners had made on the bare sheetrock beneath. When we’d moved into the house, the owners had put those square mirrors across one wall in the living room. One was butted against another […]

UNIQUELY AMERICAN by Deborah Elliott-Upton In the immortal words of Dolly Parton, “Here we go again.” Has it already been a year since we celebrated Thanksgiving via cyberspace? I’m usually one for carrying on traditions, but not this Thanksgiving. For the first time in years, I will not be basting a turkey, making chutney or […]

IT’S ALL CHEMISTRY by Deborah Elliott-Upton Basically, chemistry is taking specific elements and combining them with others and waiting for the reactant to create a new product. Add something to something else, add some heat or cold. Use a catalyst. Follow precise rules and you will achieve a specific result or product. Change the procedure […]

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW …is more time to read by Deborah Elliott-Upton “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman, American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist 1900-1981 This time of year I get […]

SHORT WORKS by Deborah Elliott-Upton I remember him best for From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line among the best war literature of Americans. Probably for this reason: I think it is one of the few war books written by somebody who was there, in the military and in combat. Most of our […]