Hmmm.  So, what is the secret of a good life?  Free life on an ocean shore surfing all day?  Having lots of wealth allowing exotic travel, enjoying a massive home in the Hampstead or the coasts in Florida and the Carolinas?  Maybe living part time in Italy or the alcoves of France and European countries?  Hmmm.  Again, what is wealth?  Does it... Continue Reading →

My Dad loved all sports.  That seems to be the quality that most dads have and pass on to their offspring.  Conversational dinners at our house consisted of rehashing whatever seasonal championships were underway, which players were advancing in stats or being exchanged for other players or in a slump.  The scores of games were dissected with the... Continue Reading →

So many pundits and revered political commentators have been bemused by the recent polls that show that President Biden is low in the polls—now get this—due to age. They gloss over his achievements and his constant traveling to meet other national leaders on the global scene, some in dire circumstances such as President Volensky of... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Stuck? Feel like you’re coasting in a fog? Bored? Caught in a revolving door? Up to your knees in quicksand or simple mud? Wish you had a better job? A better house? More ‘stuff’ you can’t afford? Going through the motions of attending church but not getting anything out of it?  I... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com In my work as a retreat director and spiritual director, I have been confronted recently with certain questions that are based on a general disposition of a disturbed and, in some cases, deeply confused mind concerning the divisions rampant in society as never before. The question usually asked is: “How can I... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com It is finally Spring!!! Join me in the outdoors wandering under Flowering Dogwoods, Magnolias, and the breath-taking Forest Pansy Redwood. Laugh with the dancing daffodils, mischievous lilac bushes, play hide-and-seek with the shy violets. I admire some of my sisters in Cincinnati who are experts on the wildflowers glorifying our woods and... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Pixabay.com Forgiveness lives in a big tent! It can be offered to institutions as well as persons. It can be part of reconciliation among nations and neighborhoods. But for the most part, it is needed in the small, circumscribed cup of the family, the place where hurts and animosities often slip in and... Continue Reading →

If you’re like me, you are happy to cruise along in the tech world at a minimum of skill and know-how. My family didn’t have a telephone until I was in fourth grade and a television made its debut in our living room when I was in the seventh grade. I punched away at a... Continue Reading →

A few weekends ago I walked into the dining room of our retreat center and was welcomed by the laughing and greetings of a large group of women who were making their annual spring retreat.  This group, and another group that gathers every November, have become very close to me over the many years I have... Continue Reading →

On Saturday, April 22, we will commemorate Earth Day.  Thousands of activities are planned across the globe from celebratory festivals to prayer services, from educational events to planned trips and adventures in places not ordinarily visited.  I hope you will do something to heighten awareness that we humans have been hostile inhabitants of this nurturing Earth at... Continue Reading →