“It is Good”

Beyond my usual list of things to be grateful for — mercy, family, reasonable health, employment, the elders still among us and the children all around — I am particularly …

“Mama!” “Mom!” “Ma!” The call, the voices — they come like distant echoes, and always when I am least expecting it. Often, they resound through my memory in those shadowed …

At the start of each new year, many of us examine our lives and, based on what we know of ourselves and how we receive the overly harsh, ever-hectoring judgments …