I was very moved by Arianna Huffington's recent piece called "God, Cellphones, Quarterly Earnings and the Search for the Common Good." It's wrapped around the release of Jim Wallis's book, On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good and challenges all...

I thought I knew everything. Or at least pretty close. It took a long time to become wise, and by wise I mean to realize how much I don't actually know. And for a while it's left me feeling pretty faithless and lost. Being so sure of what's what, what...

As I sat and contemplated the end of one year and the start of a new one, I realized the whole idea of New Year's resolutions wasn't working for me. It felt stale -- been there, done (or never ended up doing) that. It feels too much like a game...

"Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got." -- Janis Joplin

As I stood there and screwed back on the top of my thermos of hot tea, my eyes caught the words deeply etched into the yellow band at the top... LIVESTRONG. I felt this wave of sadness and I wondered...

"I can say with some confidence that we're losing the fight, badly and quickly -- losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in."
(Bill McKibben)

I had been composing an idea in my head to write about the...

I woke up this morning with thoughts of the DNC dancing in my head. What was it about it? What was the word I was searching for to describe what I was trying to put my finger on about how it "felt" ... how the democrats roll, as it were?...

Some parents need a serious timeout. No negotiation, no bargaining, no giving in. Off you go to be by yourselves and think about what you've done. About your behavior. Sit and be alone with yourself until you can come out and choose to behave better. The way you have been...

Within days of Rielle Hunter promoting her book coming out -- and her finally, freely, spouting her truth, her version of their journey together -- it's o-v-e-r? Now on so many levels I don't care one bit, one way or the other. Their lives, their movie. But as I sat...

This life is a funny thing. Complex, full of twists and turns and disappointments, love and betrayal, all the stuff of the stories told that move us and shape us. Of all the things that come our way, a brutal betrayal is perhaps one of the things that is hardest...

I've decided that the Grammy Awards have become a wild, embarrassment of riches, music concert with a few awards given out in between, only when absolutely necessary. And I like it. Such diverse music, coming at you one right after the other (I pity those poor people making sure all...

I think it was the Starbuck's cup with hearts swirling around on it that put me over the edge. You see I've been incredibly loved in my life, in every way -- I'm talking about romantically -- but this is the first year since I was 15 that I haven't...

As I was reading a few things here and there in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., a famous line of his jumped out at me, it is the line where he dreams of a day in which his children, "will not be judged by the color of their skin...

"All serious daring starts from within." -- Eudora Welty

So it's pretty clear that all the people "in the know" seem to think that New Year's resolutions don't work. Deepak Chopra, the popular alternative self-help author, when asked if he thought there was a way for people to make their...

I have to confess I'm starting to see -- up close and a little too personal as I stare at a new mole that I'm sure wasn't there yesterday -- what Bette Davis meant when she uttered that now famous line, "Old age isn't for sissies." And I'm just on...

"We were vain and ignorant nor knew
that when we stabbed thy heart
it was our own real hearts we slew." -- Oscar Wilde

It's interesting when ideas that have been floating around in the ether and in your head start to pop up in the collective...

Just as the first part of Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison, Living in the Material World, closed with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," part two opens with a voice over of George singing, alone, just him and a guitar, a very sardonic version of his famous song:
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"All things must pass...all things must pass away." -- George Harrison

I just finished watching part one of Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison, Living In The Material World. I fell willingly and lovingly down the looking glass hole of his journey, maybe it's because my life parallels that journey...