Perspective

The things that used to bother me 10 years ago are now, at best, a minor inconvenience. That’s the one advantage of getting older. When we suffer through tragic loss, personal failures, and see the suffering around us, we learn not to sweat the small … [Read more...]

Gestures of Kindness

Our boys grew up playing baseball together. His wife, a professional golfer, succumbed to cancer more than a decade ago. He recently fell, and broke a hip. Surgery. Rehab. A broken, lonely, life.  I reached out to him today, and connected … [Read more...]

And the Hate Continues……

Places of worship are no longer safe from the hatred of deranged individuals fueled by the bitter rhetoric that is the new norm. Life’s are shattered, and families destroyed. Why can’t people pray in peace, to their own God, in their own religious … [Read more...]

Ma

Yesterday was her birthday. I miss her. Nothing more to it. Just that simple. There are few people who define who we are, and even fewer whose loss rips out our heart and establishes a new normal.  We learn to live with a hole in our hearts and … [Read more...]