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Last week I heard a poem in my writing class that I'd like to share with you. It's called The Cure and was written by Albert...

It's been quite a start to the week/month/year/decade. Between learning that a family friend is on the cusp of homelessness, watching an...

It's fitting that I end the year playing a game with my family that asks questions. It's great to play with kids and growns because you...

Yesterday was the last Sunday of Advent, a Christian liturgical season that marks the four weeks before Christmas, a day that supposedly...

I was a teenager when I learned this clever little syllogism: There is one thing that is certain and that is that nothing is certain;...

It was nearly 40 years ago when my older sister called me to cry together about John Lennon's assassination. It was so stunning. So...

Here we are again. Black Friday! Cyber Monday! Giving Tuesday! In the next four frenzied weeks, we'll be overwhelmed with images and...

How much don't you know? Seem like a silly question? Rhetorical, perhaps? Give it the merest moment's thought and the answer is instantly...

I love maps. I still have a road atlas in my car and I have a map of the world on my wall. But do you know that maps lie to us all the...

I hope. I am a hoper. If you are a gardener, then you probably are too. I was thinking about this as I pulled out and cut back my front...