The pool in our community in Tucson Despite the fact that my emotional health and physical well-being seemingly depend on focusing on goodness and gratitude, I am surrounded by opportunities to see the darker sides of life. So I have a choice to make…
Happy Halloween! This holiday reminds me of the many things Ed and I don’t have in common. I grew up in Paraguay and was raised by seriously religious Mennonite missionary parents. My husband Ed came from an upstate New York Irish Catholic family. Our upbringing…
My father in 1941 Happy “Indigenous People’s Day” or “Happy Columbus Day!” Which of those two labels for this holiday is right for you relates to questions about right and wrong that I’d like us to consider. Our world today is increasingly polarized between…
In January 2018, I had the pleasure of speaking with Donna Carol Voss, in her own words, “a Berkeley grad, a former pagan, a Mormon on purpose, and an original thinker on twenty-first-century living.” She hosts “Nothing to Apologize For,” a show where she makes no apologies for talking about…
I have my old stories. You have yours. We all have them. It’s how we learned to make sense of the world around us, and sometimes still do. These old stories about what’s happened to me in the past often continue to rule how…
The Caucasus Mountains in Georgia Racism, the belief that one race is superior to another, is a big and weighty topic. I don’t begin to think that I can do it justice in one short blog. But I want to address just one form of racism…