Blog - Donna Highfill

Let’s not be Lamb Chop

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED Lamb Chop as a child, but that’s because I didn’t realize that Shari Lewis was in charge of her words and her moves. I…

Should We Wait or Should We Act?

“Let’s go. We can’t. Why not? We’re waiting for Godot.” – Samuel Beckett And we wait. For more bad news that flows beyond our saturation point. And we wait. For…

Fear is spelled E-A-S-Y, Courage is spelled R-O-A-R

My first real roller-coaster ride was on the Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia. My three best friends and I all worked there, and on an “employee’s…

Lessons from the Hummingbird

The hummingbird came to me Hovered in my face on a hot, hot day I got up and found my feeder Placed one part sugar in four parts water And…

Can You Have Too Many Friends?

I sat straight up in bed last night realizing that I had forgotten to get back to a friend on Facebook. Then I remembered a reply I owed another person…