“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves…” ― Paulo Freire Signing my niece's marriage...

"Check yourself. Sometimes you are the toxic person. Sometimes you are the mean, negative person you’re looking to push away. Sometimes...

"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots—but you have...

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… so must you know pain.” – Khalil Gibran   It’s fascinating how...

“We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are. We have to show the world that we are numerous. There are many of us out...

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anaïs Nin When I started writing these Lenten reflections, I didn’t really...

“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.” – Benjamin Franklin I had an Oprah “A-ha”...

"Man craves winter in summer, and when winter comes, he likes it not, For he is never content with any state [of things], neither with...

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." – Thomas Jefferson Waking up...

“Life is amazing.  And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane...