Yes, I have worked and am still working, under the presumption that it has significant meaning and purpose. But salvation through work? Beyond the money earned literally saving us from hunger and homelessness, what did it mean to our own religious forebears? And how does it continue to inform and shape us now?
The Other Z Word
There was suddenly this previously obscure disease, which was cropping up in a country South of our borders. How prepared would we be — in the face of such a threat?
A Short History of Curmudgeons and Snarks
Curmudgeons are churlish, irascible folks. Cantankerous would be another good word. Grouchy another. A snark goes after anyone whose momentary mess up or past indiscretions make them vulnerable to a misery-causing kind of personal one-sided attack on worth and dignity. What to do?
El Niño Years
Oscar Wilde once wrote that conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. But it is a conversation that must be held: not about umbrellas and rainbows and any-day-now sunshine, but about fossil fuel and greenhouse gases: real causes of climate disruption.
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
Regardless of gender, we receive persistent messages about the folly of, the downside of anger. An online scroll through quotes and sayings on anger reveals the dominant message: anger is not beneficial, in fact just the opposite, and must be curbed if not eliminated.
