Sometimes staying home from weekly worship is a necessity. Children need tending, bodies need resting, illness strikes, weariness sets in. There are o...
Read MoreMy college professor used to repeat this line, “The facts are our friends.” Out of the dozens of notebooks I filled during those four years, th...
Read MoreI speak less now than I ever have. This isn’t a bad thing. We live in risky times. Sides are being drawn from the White House to the watercooler....
Read MoreThere was a great sadness in the woman before me as we discussed the dysfunction of her marriage. “Does he ever bring you gifts?” I asked. S...
Read MoreThe fashionable flavor changes with the times. There was a time when vanilla was exotic. Originally cultivated by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people...
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