Painting over watercolor mistakes is near to impossible.

If I get one more reminder from my internist’s office in the form of a text, asking me to check-in on-line or from my iPhone “before” my doctor’s appointment! Then there is work, my day job. At the end of every quarter at New York Life, we have to type a paragraph regarding what we […]

What is it about the beginning of a new year that makes us want to be better, do better, and live fuller lives?

Sometimes we have to give up what we love to help people.

What is hope—-really? And what about faith, hope’s next door neighbor?

The world watched in horror as part of an island in paradise went up in flames. How many people thought “Not in Hawaii! Especially not–Maui!” Now the town of Lahaina looks like death, grey and lifeless at every turn except for the 150-year old Banyan Tree, charred, yet still alive and standing. According to npr.org, […]

Some folks purposely navigate away from facing the spiritual world or their own spiritual life.

I knew the calls would come, just like all fathers anticipate yet with a kind of bittersweet perspective. But I put that future reality in the back, far back recesses of my brain. “That’s for another time and another place. No need to worry about it now.” And time marched on. Then one day I […]

Gardening has taught me many things, but one truth stands out: some make it, some do not.

Can you replicate what the Spirt of God is doing in another part of the country by bringing it home, in hopes it also occurs here?