This little saying was in my inbox the other morning. It is a snippet from Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, the story about a person named Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia. Farmer is a physician and medical anthropologist spending his career working to improve healthcare for some of the poorest folks in the world. In Continue Reading...
I had an aunt who was a neat freak. There's no other way to put, and she would agree, if through gritted teeth and tight-lipped smile. I have a memory of visiting her home and my wife-to-be mistakenly walking into the freshly vacuumed family room. My aunt shrieked with panic as my betrothed's socked foot touched down onto the carpet. Continue Reading...
Christmas can be stressful - the gift buying, the busy social schedule, financial pressures. These aside, for many people the holidays seem to make the grief we feel with the loss of a loved one extra fresh. This grief can certainly be a result of losing a family member or close friend to death, and it can also mean mourning the Continue Reading...
