In grade school, one of my sons had a crush on a girl–the sort of crush bigger than the two extra-large cards in Valentine’s Day packages reserved for teachers. With a mouth full of baby teeth still left to lose, my son proclaimed we must go shopping for this special girl. Since this was my [...]
The big game’s over. The Giants won. Most of the stars have gone home. Soon the Super Bowl Village and giant roman numerals will be skeletons of the noise and joy that swirled and flowed around them last week. And we’ll forget what the $3.5 million in Super Bowl ads were about. Nothing lasts forever, [...]
Before I knew what life could do to a person . . . before I knew what had been done to me . . . I felt peace. I remember it, whole and holy, round and full, like the weight of a newborn infant in a mothers arms. It was the sort of peace that comes [...]