Something is Happening in Quietville
Copyright © 2023 by Gregory E. Lang All Rights Reserved Quietville image created using AI. Once upon a time, but not that long ago, in a place not that far away, there was a small neighborhood known as Quietville, and that is where our story begins. There was something rather peculiar about this neighborhood. […]
Getting Over Sheba
A true story of a man who loved a dog. My fiancé had recently left me for her college basketball coach because, she said, she wanted to be with someone more her intellectual equal. I was managing my grief by listening to Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger over and over again late into the night […]
Unmuzzle the Ox
The phrase, “Do not muzzle the ox as it treads out the grain,” comes from Deuteronomy 25:4, and it means that workers should be allowed to benefit from the fruits of their labor. For decades, donors and grantmakers (funders) have shied away from funding nonprofit labor, the salaries of the very people who keep charitable organizations running, probably […]
Why I Still Love You (originally published 2007)
A little more than a year ago my wife, Jill, and I sat back with members of my family in a crowded room and watched a man and a woman dance. He, agile and with deft feet, did most of the dancing. She, weakened by a long-term illness, smiled as he swirled around her. He […]
To Echo and Remain, A Review
To Echo and Remain, by Greg Lang From Paige Havens, Hoschton: Gwinnettian Greg Lang is already known to be a New York Times bestselling author, but recently he crossed genres, releasing a contemporary romance novel – To Echo and Remain. This story left my heart full and my mind reflecting, as it reminds us that we all have back stories and […]
Heal Thy Self
The best way to postpone death by embarrassment is to be the first to laugh at yourself. Laughing at oneself is self-healing; it inoculates you for the suffering that follows when others are only seconds away from doubling over in knee-slapping, screaming howls about something you’ve done. We may not all share this philosophy, but […]