Don’t Treat Me LIke a Child

by Susan Ternyey, Apr 2025″Wheelchair Woman” Don’t treat me like a child–I don’t have use of my legs,But I still have use of my brain.Don’t breeze in and take over my kitchen,And you don’t have to tell me how to tie my shoes.I can’t do everything, but let me do what I can for myself–IContinue reading “Don’t Treat Me LIke a Child”

Faith & Science

by ST–May 2024 Enlightenment vs Faith in God The Enlightenment freed us from a superstitious belief in God as the explanation for whatever we don’t comprehend.  Science can explain more and more, so we don’t have to fall back on God or the miraculous for an explication of things.  Right?  We understand the development ofContinue reading “Faith & Science”

The Coat of Arms

by Susan Ternyey, 1980s Far humbler than the poet whom I appeal As tutor, in aspiring to convey And ‘scribe in characters of the Ideal Those worthy merits, in this worldly fray, Which we would urge on any that we may– Most ‘specially our children and their own– That seem to us appropriate array ForContinue reading “The Coat of Arms”