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Meeting Alzheimer’s: Companionship for Caregivers
If we look beneath memory loss and the inability to reason, we may be surprised to discover what persons with Alzheimer’s reveal to us …
Read MoreOops, Oh Well
2014-06-11 Turns out there was another school shooting. Yeah, the one in Oregon, not the people who shot the cops in Las Vegas because they didn’t like the government – that was the day before, I think. No, in Portland, Oregon, at a high school, not the university one in Seattle. That’s been a few…
Read MoreToo Much Noise
2014-05-02 The house is still and quiet. The only sounds are the low gurgle of the fish tank filter and my fingers tapping on the computer keys. The soft light of morning is just creeping over the pine trees out my back window and the streets are blanketed in just enough darkness that the cars…
Read MoreSimple Prayer, Profound Meditation
2014-04-18 please… please.. please…please. I whispered the words softly, quietly. As I stood in the bridal waiting room at the back of the church, ten years ago, ready to step out to a church filled with family and friends where my soon-to-be-husband was standing at the altar, I breathed those simple words. Please. Please. Please.…
Read MoreBrave Love
2014-02-07 I have fallen a bit behind. I had high hopes this year of completing the Thirty Days of Love activity calendar with my kids, filling our journal with words, our minds with thoughts, and our hearts with love. But, alas, we have fallen behind. Our ambitious expectations have been thwarted by dinner preparations and…
Read MoreValentine’s Day
2014-02-12 I could be wrong, but I rather suspect that Valentine’s Day is the most widely despised holiday in the country. Really, unless you’re in the small minority of people who are in the throes of romantic passion, what’s to like? You don’t get a day off of work, there’s no religious ceremony or significance,…
Read MoreThe Pragmatic Believer
2013-12-06 This time of year also fills me with a number of conflicting emotions. As someone who was raised Catholic, I might be considered a metaphorical Christian by some. Nonetheless, I am very much Unitarian when it comes to my theological beliefs – a Pragmatic Believer of sorts – so Christmas holds no almost no…
Read MoreHis Day Is Done
2013-12-13 Since hearing the news last Thursday of the passing of Nelson Mandela, our beloved Madiba, I have been longing to be able to share the experience with my friends in South Africa. Although we all knew the time would come when he would no longer be physically with us, it has been hard to…
Read MoreBeauty of the Season? Really?
2013-12-20 I did not plan to write this post. In fact, I had intended to write something very, very different. Given that this weekend marks the winter solstice, I had wanted to write something poignant and insightful about the beauty of the season. I wanted to write about the joys that winter brings, about sledding…
Read MoreLet Us Take Care of Each Other
2013-11-15 “I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” Harvey Fierstein Early this week, my youngest son came down with strep throat. Like…
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