When People Are Kind In a corrosive world how can we be like Jesus? We focus on being in a kinder, gentler place of forgiveness and grace.

When I first moved to California, I felt like a fish out of water. I had moved from New York City to begin graduate school …

“I don’t know if I want kids,” I told my husband more than once. “I could live with or without them,” my phlegmatic husband would …

When I was a child, I remember the virus that infested our town, our state, our country, the United States of America: a very consuming …

The date was March 30, 2020. Our state governor had just issued a stay-at-home order. No more than 10 people were allowed to gather at …

I’m not usually angry when I walk out of a doctor’s visit, but apparently there’s a first time for everything. You see, today was my …

Born in 1946, I am a baby boomer. I was raised in an era where following the Golden Rule was the customary way to behave. …

I must have walked up on a heated political discussion being held by a handful of salt-of-the-earth-looking kind of folks, although unmasked and not socially …

Teenage boys can be the most loving people on earth sometimes. No. Really. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about love and kindness lately. …

I’m temporarily living in a duplex we own in the small tourist town of Marietta, Ohio. After living 20 years in an old farmhouse surrounded …

It was January of 2014 and I was living blocks away from Brooklyn College in South Brooklyn, just off of the Q train en route …