I've been thinking a lot lately about religion and spirituality, in particular about the role of religion in politics. I've been doing a...

You can’t live in a place for almost four decades and NOT have stories to tell.

So … today is Chandler’s and my 50th wedding anniversary. We said “I Do” in our apartment, the minister who lived upstairs (with dubious...

Every morning I cry. I am invariably the first person to wake up, and I have a routine I seldom break. Make coffee, sit in the...

In 2018 I published a memoir in which I castigated myself for being an enabler – and indeed I was and still am. Instead of putting my...

Tonight, I will be attending a graduation ceremony that will be like no other I have attended. Because of the pandemic, students will be...

As a school counselor, it wasn’t unusual for me to sit face-to-face with a student (or parent, or teacher) who came to me complaining...

The month of May, for so many a reminder of life’s renewal after a bleak winter, will forever be bittersweet for me. It was May, 2008,...

When we moved into our home in Grand Prairie, Texas, 36 years ago, we fell in love with our neighborhood. Not only was it a quiet, shady...

Having just turned 72, I fall into the earliest cusp of the Baby Boom generation, a huge group of Americans born during the two decades...