Today's my cousin Karen's birthday. Of all my 42 first cousins, some of whom have now passed, Karen is the closest, though among the...

After the anniversary ring/missing-found diamonds miracle, I was looking at my wedding band today, observing how different my...

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,...