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Back in the day when I taught homeless women in greater Boston shelters, one of my students, young and lovely, ...
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[Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California, after a fire.] When I was working on WellingUp.net, I told its web developers: "You ...
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[This 2007 photograph of an El Salvadoran mural taken by Alison McKeller.] This week I heard a story, a story ...
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Much is being written or vlogged about Greta Gerwig's "Little Women." May I join in? Seated in perfect seats in ...
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One Sunday morning every December, my Quaker meeting shortens its morning worship to put on a fifteen-minute Christmas pageant. Directed ...
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Sometimes I exchange books with a dear friend. Sometimes I'll notice intriguing titles or descriptives in a box of give-aways ...
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What I'm about to write may seem ridiculously obvious. And political—not spiritual. And yet this Ah Hah feels Spirit-given: Yesterday ...
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In order to be very, very careful, I must leave out most of the salient details that would make this ...
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[Set, "King Lear," Actors Shakespeare Project, Chelsea Theatre Works, Chelsea, MA] One of the many reasons my husband and I ...
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We talk about "speaking truth to power"; sometimes using just the right words, even if they're highfalutin', can be enormously ...
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[Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.] Take it from me, someone who'd stumbled ...
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I have a new mantra these days. And it's powerful. And eerily, mysteriously effective. Here's an example of how it ...
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A coal barge slowly cruises up the Ohio River; it passes the Jeffboat Company, now shut down, where the rust-colored ...
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There have been many times over the past month as I either prepared for or recovered from both eyes' cataract ...
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[Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico] It's been almost three weeks since I last heard ...
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Forty years ago and just beginning to attend Friends Meeting at Cambridge, I'd considered the people I'd worshipped with every ...
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Saturday, at Art Beat, Somerville's largest cultural festival, I experienced A Moment: The nearby band playing Elvis Costello's "(What So ...
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There is an us in this famous Marshall Ganz statement. I keep forgetting that. Called to follow Micah's admonition to do ...
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Tuesday,  having spent some wonderful time with our Tarrytown, NY family, my husband and I explored that part of the ...
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Slowly, slowly, my siblings and I have been disposing of the enormous amount of stuff my parents left behind. That ...
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Last evening after the rain had ended, I was walking along one of Cambridge Common's asphalt paths when I noticed ...
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This morning after a long silence I received a text from the man I had been visiting in prison. He's ...
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Saturday I attended the memorial for Paul Hood, a much revered peace activist and former member of Friends Meeting at ...
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Yesterday at meeting for worship, an elderly man struggled to stand and then spoke so quietly that almost no-one could ...
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