In search of sunshine and solace

Friday, March 29
Lilly Pulitzer started a fruit juice stand because she needed a renewed sense of purpose. She had moved to Palm Beach, Florida in …

Seasons by the moment

Friday, March 22
I was in my garden last Sunday afternoon. I was pulling a yucca plant that I mistakenly planted in one of my garden beds years ago.  …

Beloved author

Friday, March 15
Ask anyone, especially my family, that my memory of names of bands,  movie plots and actors, and books I've read is spotty. It's …

The quotes we choose

Friday, March 8
The quotes we choose tell others something about us. I found this quote as I was exploring quotes using a search query of notable …

An early influencer

Friday, March 1
Until this week, I had never heard of Cynthia Heimel. Her Wikipedia page describes her as a columnist and foremost the author of …
A greater good

The failure of the president’s inner circle must be held accountable as the citizens of this nation have been lied to about the well-being of our commander-in-chief. President Joseph P. …

On emotional scars and deep loss in generational trauma

I am not a Holocaust survivor in the classic sense. Neither my body nor my person experienced the horrors of the Concentration camps and the systematic torture and wanton murders of the Nazi killing …

Bedridden Ruminations

I have had Crohn's disease for almost 50 years. This means I have had a ringside seat not only to what was once referred to as a 20th-century illness that was treated with 19th-century medicine for …

The making of a leprechaun

You may have seen the leprechaun art in the March  14 edition of the River Reporter.  Here's how it was made

Price to pay

I am struck that sometimes when we determine the price of something, we don't factor in all of the costs.  With a background in sociology, W.E.B. DuBois seemed to have a fundamental …

Nothin's perfect

It's good to know that we don't have to be perfect to be loveable.

Purposefulness & determination

I encountered the life and legacy of Rev. Howard Thurman in seminary. It was there that I learned that Thurman was the direct link between  Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  …

The researcher is the writer

Richard Kluger seems to like to sink his teeth into complex subjects and set them in terms of sweeping societal concepts. His two best-known works are Simple Justice , generally regarded as the …

Food for the soul

I first became acquainted with Dorothy Day as part of a seminary course on religious social activists.  Beyond her work as a co-founder and editor of …