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Don Miguel Ruiz wrote,  “Death is not  the biggest fear  we have;  our biggest fear  is taking the risk  to be alive --  the...

In another life, my dissertation project would have been talking with the homeless... not surveys as this story suggests, but really getting...

On October 20th, we hiked up this mountain to find my sister's resting place.  It turns out that peak she loved so much is the highest ...

This is a heart-breaking yet fascinating piece on a man who returns to Alcatraz fifty years after having been an inmate there . His reflecti...

  The cure  for anything  is salt water -tears,  sweat,  or the sea.  Isak Dinesen Looking forward to ...

As I sat on the plane, these thoughts raced through my head about the weekend.   Truth telling with people who know it's okay not to b...

I decided that I needed to start lighting my own torches at the end of the tunnel. Here is one that I think is almost radiating golden lin...

Me & Chila on the Alaska Cruise, 2008 Greg, me & Chila, circa 1971 Tonight, I will get on a plane to take my parents home....

Should his heart break  and the grief pour out,  it would flow over  the whole earth,  it seems,  and yet,  no one sees...

I am slogging through my exam rewrites ... slowly, but, hopefully, steadily. I saw this on a break, and thought I would share it.  Hoping...

I continue to be shocked by what we allow to happen in our society -- and call it justice .  Rest in Peace, Mr. Wallace. Sadly, when you w...

Some days there don't seem to be any lights at the end of the tunnel... only the cold, muddy earth beneath my feet, slowing my progress....

It's so curious:  one can resist tears  and 'behave' very well  in the hardest hours of grief.  But then someone makes...

These folks are walking a dangerous walk -- it certainly is laudable that they do more than just pray for these women .  May they be safe an...

 When my mom, sister and I were in Italy last summer, we seemed to love to take photos like this...  down a street...through a door, ar...

The last place  we tend to look  for healing  is within  ourselves.  ~ Wayne Muller Crazy fungus that looked like p...

I was talking to someone recently, and I said, I don't think I can take one more thing. Well, it feels like I have lived through a shi...

Today would have been their 30th wedding anniversary.  My heart breaks over and over again. ...