“And speaking of things overheard, you heard right: if I have to go out, I am going to go out singing.” – Brett Foster I’d

I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.” — Ps. 122:1 “Football is a Religion and

Lines Composed in an Autumn Reverie, on Visiting the Japanese Garden one Friday Afternoon, October 2015.               Chrysanthemums Huddled

SIMI VALLEY, CA — “We have no firm explanation at this time.” That was as much as Patricia Drake, spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Foundation

Now that I’ve turned 50 (on August 7), I have begun to reflect tentatively on mortality and legacy and all those things that hit you

We have arrived at that late-summer turning point when we take stock of what we have or have not accomplished since Memorial Day, back when

Three months on from the deaths of my parents, a week out from my daughter’s wedding, I finally get back to this cloth tote bag,

My daughter’s wedding is today. At last, the day has arrived! As you might expect, at my house we have been thinking of nothing but