I climb the Canadian shield. Here where ancient gray rocks show their bare glacial polish and fall craggy into water.

It's the beginning of a new school year--my 51st consecutive year of beginning school since I first toddled off to…

Silence, high walls, or sometimes even beautiful courtyards insulate us from voices we would rather not listen to.

Yes, it’s about the admission of wrongdoing. But it’s also a declaration of the importance of relationship and the possibility…

Stanwyck and MacMurray commit a murder for insurance money.

Every moment of every day, of every week, month, or year, while the clock does its ticking, we live... And…

There’s hope hidden in the mantra – this, too, shall pass. Awful things don’t last forever. They pass, in one…

Two weeks ago, I visited the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, where Rembrandt van Rijn lived, painted, and sold paintings…

In our current context, I notice that “magical” is a favored, sacred adjective. Is that the power of Disney?

My colleague Gary D. Schmidt is an award-winning author of Middle Grade fiction and so speaks all over the country. …