Jean Marie Johnson

“If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in  memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist. I think

  “What is your intention for today?”                                                    “My what?” “Your intention. You know, what do you want this day to be like? How do you want to experience it?” For

  I often see my 93-year-old neighbor outside picking up her daily newspaper and stopping to take in her lush and lovely flowers. I’d like to think that this daily

There I was, plunked down in the driver’s seat, waiting for the short text that would tell me it was my turn to be seen. Why hadn’t I thought this

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde Why did I say that? That’s not what I believe. Why did I go along with that? That’s not what

  Can is about ability Could is about choice Should is about obligation Of course, we learned all of this in grammar school. But the significance of these everyday words is enormous: a can quickly

  You mention to a working person that you’re “a little bit bored” and you get a look. You know, the one that saysWhat? You get to do anything you

  I was 19 or 20 at the time, a sophomore or junior in college. I had stopped by the house of a guy I was seeing and waited around