SwaffWords® 6/24/26 "Rewriting Henry James"... Really?

Published: Wed, 06/24/26

"Rewriting Henry James" Share / Read Online And suddenly it's summer in this part of the world. Let's soak up as much light as we can even though it…

SwaffWords® 6/10/26 "Taking care of Our Selves" -- with grace.

Published: Wed, 06/10/26

"Taking Care of Our Selves" Share / Read Online Welcome to June. We're about ten days out from days becoming shorter in this part of the world. I've…

SwaffWords® 5/27/26— "Don't Let The Old One In" Who? How?

Published: Wed, 05/27/26

"Don't Let The Old One In" Share / Read Online And so we find Our Selves in the waning days of May... Time passes. Life unfolds and with any luck, we…

SwaffWords® 5/13/26— "Suffer"--What's the original meaning?

Published: Wed, 05/13/26

"Suffer" Share / Read Online Hello and welcome to mid May! An update and a bit of "housekeeping" before we begin. SwaffWords® is now trademarked:…

SwaffWords™ 4/22/26— "Warring"--Who Is Left?

Published: Wed, 04/22/26

Updated: Wed, 04/22/26

"Warring" Share / Read Online Hello and welcome. Let's get right to it: "War does not determine who is right; it only determines who is left." Sadly,…

SwaffWords™ 4/8/26— "Become Bread"--Especially when you're hungry.

Published: Wed, 04/08/26

"Become Bread" Share / Read Online "April is the cruelest month", or so T.S. Eliot wrote. I tend to agree with him. There's a whiplash effect that…

SwaffWords™ 3/25/26— "Be Smarter Than Your Pain"

Published: Wed, 03/25/26

Updated: Wed, 03/25/26

"Be Smarter Than Your Pain" Share / Read Online Hello and welcome to spring in this part of the world. Since it's the time of year for fresh starts…

SwaffWords™ 3/11/26— "How Do You Listen?"

Published: Wed, 03/11/26

Updated: Wed, 03/11/26

"How Do You Listen?" Share / Read Online Welcome. Here we are, coming up on the Ides of March and in the last gasps of winter in this part of the…

SwaffWords™ 2/24/26— "What Was Before This?"

Published: Tue, 02/24/26

Updated: Tue, 02/24/26

"What Was Before This?" Share / Read Online And so the end of February is upon us. We're moving into the long stretch of late winter and the early…

SwaffWords™ 2/11/26— "Open-Ended Questions" ~ And?

Published: Wed, 02/11/26

"Open-Ended Questions" Share / Read Online Hello and welcome to the shortest month of the year. While it''s often considered a "heart" month for…