Category: On Life & Love

I just returned from a 10-day family reunion where many generations were present. During that visit, I spent some time in conversation with a lovely person from an older generation. This means that the gal was in her nineties as I am racking up birthday digits more rapidly than I’d care to admit! The visit

I came across a compelling photo of my oldest granddaughter the other day sitting on the floor of her gym and the first word that came to mind was resilience. This is not such an odd thought to have, this child was made from material that when stretched will bounce back to its original shape.

There is a line from a favorite John Prine song that reads “I am old woman, named after my mother. My old man is another child that’s grown old.” Where is it certainly true that the Professor is a child at heart and even more so as he ages, the truest ring in the line

As I slept the other night, I was delivered a wonderful dream. Because everything in my wide-awake world has slowed, I guess my psyche has tempered to meet the rhythm. This dream carried me to a wonderful discovery… “I was walking down a road that went on forever. There were fields of green on each

I was brought up in a family full of Catholics. It was an obligatory presence and back then a required mandate. My mother’s families were all devout followers. My father, having barely survived being shot down in World War 2, converted to the faith through his conversations with a reassuring Navy Chaplain in a far-away island

Working together and remembering our common humanity reminds me that listening to our spiritual calling is what is needed to ensure unity in our world that is riddled with discord. A spiritual life belongs to all of us, not to one faith or church. This type of prayer should ring true for those who live

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like ‘struggle’. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly as he or she was made, exactly as they are here and now.” ~ Fred Rogers I love this wonderful quote by Fred Rogers. There lies a profound ideology within

Ok, I am not going to throw out a lot of weak statements to you or try and convince you of my earnest efforts of doing good. But what I am going to do is tell you a short story on how my day went after being powered by a mantra – I can do

As the sun set over the granite waves of the Gulf of Mexico, I paused to say grace and send out of note of thanks for a perfect end to a perfect day. When the sun finally sank away leaving a shroud of mango silk draped across the sky, the Professor and I headed to

The building blocks of Faith, Hope and Charity are like a three-legged stool. They are the three great virtues of humanity. Some have written that the word or action of Charity is the greatest of the three.  I agree.  Yet, I can clearly see that all three are interchangeable.   Think of it this way –