At this time when what we have to give is so much about our most basic expression of humanity, I am thinking about kindness. Kindness is the quality of being...

Often, only in hindsight can we see the beginning. As we take stock of a year that has just passed and the vicissitudes of fortunes that we may have experien...

I have a tree in my front yard that has become taller than any other. It is a Chinese Redwood given to me by my father as only a sapling in honor of our shar...