Today’s guest on our podcast Kim Colegrove lost her husband David to suicide in 2014, less than three months after he retired from a 30-year law enforcement career. She created The PauseFirst Project, which we’ll talk about, to honor David’s…
My Father with his Newest Grandchild This is an excerpt from my new book Nothing Bad Between Us: Around midnight, with considerable trepidation, Steve walked past the pump house and across the yard the short distance to Mom and Dad’s new house…
Our Former River Property – All that Remains is a Chimney In the coming weeks and months, my guests in our upcoming series on Choosing Compassion over Fear will be sharing their personal stories. My teacher Fr. Richard tells me that there are…
My Grandsons, Playing Teppich This week’s blogs have been about learning to be in that “wondering place,” at peace with not knowing what lies ahead. I’d like to tell you a short story. When I was young, my…
Front Patio of Our Desert Home In the northern hemisphere, fall is in the air. Our days are getting shorter. Low, slanting rays of sunlight are replacing the full-on beams of high summer. The lengthened shadows foretell the steady progression toward the darkness of winter. In nature, fall is a…