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I love the book of Ruth. It’s been one of my favorites since I was a kid, and not because of the way it ends. I love it because of the way it begins. It's the first 22 lines, I think, that really [...]

One day when my kids were small we passed by a McDonald’s after a day at the beach. I thought it would be fun to spontaneously treat them to ice cream cones. I can still recall their looks of [...]

I wish I could remember exactly where I heard the radio show.  However, it has played over and again in the back of my mind since I heard it, more than a year ago. Somehow I had stumbled on some [...]

We’re all worried about it.  Bad parenting. Screwing up our kids. If it weren’t such a sad obsession for most of us parents, it would almost be laughable, the things we worry about.  “If I make [...]

  It's what we don't see coming that scares us the most. Because suddenly, everything can change. This is the fear that we all stuff down... even when it rears its head. At any given moment, the [...]