As the essays continue to flow, I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first collection of 2022: Beyond the […]

As the essays continue to flow, I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first collection of 2022: Beyond the […]
Winterwalks are full of small wonders when we look a little closer at Nature’s delicate artwork. Icy waters are bubbling […]
Margaret Renkl’s book, Graceland, at Last provided the menu for what I dish up in my column this week. Excerpt […]
Having served in the Interfaith world for many years, I look for these kinds of stories, the ones where diverse […]
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.
This week’s column draws from a story told by a transgender rabbi, then relates that to a suicide prevention hotline […]