Not a single one of us can bear losing. Winning is all. If we win, we live, if we lose we die......and somehow we have forgotten this important truth: we learn more from losing than from winning. And if we…

She remembered hearing about “lies of omission.” What a funny phrase, a phrase no doubt left over from the early life of going to catechism – not from mass. Although she and her mother and sister went to mass every…

[continuing with Amelia and her friend Jana, fiction] Jana has the confidence of a rich person and happily drives a jalopy, albeit a bloated tank of a Mercedes sedan. I don't have a car, so I'm grateful she ferries us…

The teacher lied about all that was lost. He claimed it was the blues and not our own. He claimed that it was stolen when it was handed away. He claimed it was some diety and not within our own…

Lying about loss can be a big mistake. See Exodus 32. Ten Commandments handed down to Moses by God himself & Moses returned from the mountaintop carrying heavy stone tablets just in time to witness the people breaking every commandment…

I’ve set myself a complex challenge: to write to and about three of my dearest , most important friends as I prepare to move away from them…. In order to leave something with them once I’m gone ( not dying,…

A face made beautiful by suffering Am I beautiful? My face was not “made beautiful.” My face just got older, as did everyone else’s. My hair is foolishly dyed. Too dark. I am not beautiful and never have been –…

A Face made Beautiful by Suffering is a face I've yet to see. What are we talking about here? A face that's undergone the knife of the plastic surgeon? A face that's been beaten black and blue? A face that's…

"Of course." "What do you mean?" "Nothing." "You meant something. Say it."

One time we were all invited to see this very avant-garde video artist who was presenting his work for one night only at Cal Tech of all places. My Kathleen had a scientist friend who heard about it and of…