Called to be a wounded healer
Before a commercial plane takes off, flight attendants go over safety rules for passengers, pointing out exits and what to do if yellow oxygen masks f...
20 July 2022
Called to be a wounded healer
Before a commercial plane takes off, flight attendants go over safety rules for passengers, pointing out exits and what to do if yellow oxygen masks f...
13 July 2022
Putting the best of people first
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” —Dr. Seuss
It has become one of the world’s ...
06 July 2022
Feeling fine despite challenges
When Jeanne Louise Calment turned 90, lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray cut a contingency deal with her. Calment, in financial difficulties, signed papers...
29 June 2022
Modeling after Honest Abe
I’m grateful that high school had us memorize the Gettysburg address. It’s one of history’s greatest speeches, and it’s only 10 sentences long...
15 June 2022
Coping with today’s ‘future shock’
When I read Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” in 1972, I assumed that he was the first to write about the lightning pace of change in our day. His ...
25 May 2022
Navigating life’s hills and valleys
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” —Kahlil Gibran
Theologian Martin Marty describes two types of ...
18 May 2022
Visits fulfill need for words, touch
The question posted by a Quora Digest’s reader was, “What’s the point of visiting patients in a nursing home with severe dementia or Alzheimerâ€...
11 May 2022
Make practicing grace a habit
A woman stood patiently in the grocery check-out lane, practicing six feet of social distancing, when an elderly man cut in front of her, proceeded to...
04 May 2022
Keeping civility alive
A Texas friend wrote me about her experiences through the years of having lost things returned.
“I dropped my credit card at a gas pump and had i...
27 April 2022
Nothing gold can stay
Robert Frost was plagued by loss and grief and depression throughout his life. When he was 12, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving his family a t...
