.OPTIONS for a Better World

Much better than expected.  Christmas has so much weight to it: the weight of expectations, real or imagined memories, family, traditio...

be light be kind be astonished To my friends, family, and visitors: The world needs you. Please don't give up. Thi...

Two days to Christmas Eve. I hope you are at least hanging in. I have good things ahead of me and I hope t...

Take your pick. Or take them all!   For many, a holiday weekend now begins. I am sending yo...

 These days have been surreal. With the heaviest hearts, mourning the loss of precious children and their teachers and principal, yeste...

Gone. Twenty small children. Innocence. Twenty six families. Trust. Christmas.... My daughter Jessica hugged her three boys ve...

It hasn't always been this way. When my daughter was young, she begged me not to embarrass her. She had to fit in and my single ...

Not going to be so easy.  I had hoped this Christmas there would be time, family, friends, cookies, restaurants, warm bread, a tree alr...