It was early during the evening hours. Night had not yet descended; it was that time of the year when daylight lingered longer than…

So much has been written about the pandemic, much of it wise.  I wondered why add my own? So, here are quotes from others…

Going Home We are saddened by the recent death of Denis’ mother. At the same time just when we’d almost lost hope of spring…

Sudden Death Looking back to November of last year with all the cantankerousness and incivility of mid-term elections, on the day we voted we…

While we were away in October for our vacation, I expected to review the milestones of Fifty Years of Marriage. Isn’t that what people…

Earlier this summer we had this rather rash idea of taking Denis’ mother to Cinco de Mayo in West St. Paul. We knew she’d…

These words were spoken at the marriage of Madison & Pamela on August 8, 2009 in Durham, NC. Earlier this week I was speaking…

We live in a climate where the seasons are sharp. There is no mistaking them. Winter freezes everything including our senses; but they waken…

“People have always collected things. Whether a vestige of our hunter-gatherer days, a need to forge order amid chaos, or a simple desire to…

[Note: “This article originally appeared on June 19, 2009 in Comment, a publication of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca.”] The first meal I prepared for the man…