A cousin I was close to in childhood passed away this week. I’m sad to have lost touch, but glad […]


A cousin I was close to in childhood passed away this week. I’m sad to have lost touch, but glad […]

This week’s column is on the Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh who passed away last week. His writings were […]

This week’s column celebrates the creative mind of Black poet Langston Hughes. It includes these lines from “Call to Creation”: […]

This weekend’s column shines a light on the illumination created by people who choose to act in more enlightened ways […]

The backdrop to our lives. . .

Thanks to Margaret Downey, President of the Freethought Society in Pennsylvania, my essay on naturalistic philosopher John Burroughs is included […]

Missing the cold, the snow, the “real winter,” yet we never have to miss the Beauty of Nature.