Reasons to Live

In conversation with a young adult I’ll call Sophie, we talked about the suicide of a friend of hers I’ll call Tommy. “He was the …

A late summer walk can be lovely especially if there’s a light breeze, puffy white clouds and – low humidity. That’s how it was that …

One bitterly cold February day driving from Wisconsin to Georgia, feeling dispirited by all the dissension and even downright vitriol in the country, I pulled …

Art as a concept saves lives and everyone should make room for it in theirs. A short declaration but it is a true one, and …

In conversation with a young adult I’ll call Sophie, we talked about the suicide of a friend of hers I’ll call Tommy. “He was the …

Our lives are constantly changing. It starts the second we’re born and continues until the day we die. It seems as though each person is …

Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. This was not an occupation my parents or …

What motivates my daily outbound journey from the 5:00 a.m. alarm bell each morning? It’s a really good and obviously recurring question. Phyllis Diller once …

There seems to be a growing fear and confusion in my church about the decline of Christianity in America. I’ve read the statistics. I continue …

What wakes me up in the morning is not the pitter-patter of little feet, but rather the lack thereof. Sure, those size six-and-a-half tootsies may …