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“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 …

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 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 …

To me, one of most interesting ideas that comes from my study of the two birth narratives of Jesus (in the gospels of Matthew and …

Autumn is a season that reminds me of kindness. It’s a time of year where I choose to reflect on all the good. Something about …

Something is happening that should make us all nervous and afraid. Civility and a shared sense of community is slipping away. People are more brittle …

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!” I heard that a lot when I was growing up. Apparently, I …