In college I took a social psychology course, something I thought useful for a career in advertising. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest...

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk – Chapter 19, Page 122

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from...

I sighed. “Now what do I do?” He leaned against my wall. “What do you want to do?” “Since when has that mattered?” “It’s always mattered. It doesn’t mean you’ll get what you want, but...

Chocolate is God’s apology for brocolli

I hope you can someday forgive me.”I forgive you now.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

fear doesn’t listen to reason it takes it own counsel

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today–and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela,...

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

What a difference having a friend makes.

I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears – real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn’t need to be rational...

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a...