As I shared the news that I was going to be a first-time grandmother recently, I was a little surprised by how people responded....

The holiday season is everywhere already. Despite the absurdity of starting Christmas in October, I love this time of year. I look...

On a sunny afternoon at the lake this summer, my sisters and I sat on the pier, chatting lazily. Having turned 60 last year, I wondered...

I’m driving and listening to the news on NPR. The light ahead changes from yellow to red. The injunction to Stop! breaks into my...

There was a time when my every moment was accounted for, a blur of activity. You’d think life would be simpler now, with full-time work...

Is it still January? What an interminable month. My mind won’t focus. My get-up-and-go got up and went. I’m betwixt and between. I know...

As I settled into my seat on a flight to Boise, a man appeared next to me, pointing to the middle seat. He was wearing a lanyard with a...

"What do you want to savor?" The Benedictine sisters asked this question regularly in my contemplative spiritual direction training. The...

One afternoon in late September 2019, my husband, Jay, was riding his bicycle. Crossing a street, his front tire lodged between grass and...

This summer I visited my hometown and took a walk to Rec Park, a deeply familiar place. For several years, every summer afternoon, my...

These days there’s so much focus on the incivility that has permeated our public milieu, how we disagree with and are different from one...

Do you ever have a half-formed thought between sleep and waking up, like a lucid dream that feels like a message from beyond? Recently...