I wonder if she woke feeling any different that day, if she’d had any telltale dreams. We women have our sixth sense about things. But she probably had no inkling that it was her last dawn, at least on this earth. It was a sudden heart attack. Who did she greet on the way out… Read More Our Final Day and a Deal With God
As passionate as I can be about things, I’ve only just begun to connect with the spectrum of emotions I had buried all my life under the stoicism. When you reflect on your day as you turn out the lights, you are in fact revisiting how you felt about it, not what you thought about… Read More The Tyranny of Feelings
DAWNING Even in my happy indifference to athletics, striving is something I could understand. The Olympian presses on toward the moment that will redeem the years and pleasures and normalcy he had laid on the altar of glory, challenging the unrivaled to best himself. But men who attack one another—invite the blows and blood—and go… Read More Greatness: The Art of War
Deeply troubled by the reports of violence against the Jews in Europe, Gil Kraus decided to rescue children from the clutches of Nazi Germany, his posh home and successful law practice in Philadelphia treasures he could let go. Even with two kids, 13 and 9—and perhaps because of them—he was willing to confront danger for… Read More WHY AMERICA IS GREAT and WHY IT ISN’T
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Can we talk? Can we truly talk about the elephant in the room that you never want to talk about? Race. Let’s talk about race. I’m black. I’m a woman. Two indisputable facts that you may have noticed. I’m a mother. To a son. He’s the light…
stargazers in furious bloom – vanilla air – are the only flowers that trust me, tell me i am not hopeless; the juice in their veins, the way they gulp the sun and meet my face, their beauty and their business say i don’t need a green thumb and the riotous garden. all one needs… Read More stargazers
“He told of how the trees had grown in all sorts of conditions, endured lightning strikes and windstorms and infestations. [The boat builder] said the wood taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, but it also taught us about the reason for surviving in the first place. Something about infinite beauty, about things larger and… Read More Happy Hard Year
How is it that Facebook famously feeds depression? The Happiest Virtual Place On Earth can feel like one endless reminder of the Things That Are Missing in our life. Offline, I look at the people around me. My single friends would give an arm to be married. Those with families of their own each have… Read More Why Everybody Else Is Happier Than You
Now, why’s the AC dying again? We just fixed it. Weird. Car’s sluggish, too. Mph: 70. 60. 50. 45. Ok. Gotta pull over. I run the hazard lights and crawl over two lanes to the shoulder – just in time. The Sienna gives out and it takes me a minute to realize the hood’s smoking.… Read More STRANDED
Forty-two days after burning in a fatal crash, Niki Lauda jumped back on the Formula 1 track to defend his championship title against James Hunt. Single-mindedness. Insane resolve. I wasn’t into racing, but this was my kind of story. The film Rush opens with a portrait of Hunt as a handsome, charismatic, successful racer with… Read More Greatness: Till Death Do You Part
A Holistic Journey 