Mothers Day

by | May 9, 2013 | Family Relations

I’ve known this young woman, who is now a senior in high school, since I visited her and her mother in the hospital the day she was born. She and her family are dear people in my life. She’s given me permission to publish this essay which won her a trip to...

Creative Brooding

by | Dec 13, 2012 | Family Relations

For more than forty years, Robert Raines’ devotional book, Creative Brooding (Macmillan, 1966), has been a source of inspiration and challenge along the way of my journey–both personally and professionally. If today, I read from it less, I find myself more...