What Would You do Without Christmas?

I was a child who never had a Christmas. I wasn’t Jewish. Or Muslim. Nor were my parents atheists, not by any definition of the word. We were Christians. We just didn’t observe the religious holidays associated with that faith. My parents explained to me that it was because the observations – the rituals, traditions [...]

And the Sensible Response is…

I’ve been quiet lately. There is precedent for that, but I’ll admit it isn’t a frequent occurrence. The last time must have been when I was about three. So I don’t remember much about it. But I’ve heard stories. Mostly from my mother. She was there. In her story, I was nattering on about something arcane [...]

Tribute to a Storyteller

          “There is a deeper wound when people don’t hear our words of affection. There is a greater loss when people don’t hear our praise. It’s a loss for them, and we’re diminished by it because there’s something… a certain level of grieving when we know that our expression of ‘I [...]

That’s How the Light Gets In (and out)

Robert Merton, who is credited with coining the phrase “self-fulfilling prophecy” said “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves.” Isn’t that how we all wish to be loved? Not perfectly as someone we are trying to be, not perfectly as an ideal, but perfectly as what WE were designed [...]

Show Me the LOVE (and I’ll be your friend for life)

This post has been bubbling on my back burner for a while and Valentine’s Day seemed like an appropriate time to serve it up. It’s dedicated to everyone who has made me feel worthy of love – from the lady at the dry cleaners who always remembers my name even though I NEVER pronounce hers [...]