Seven Ways to Improve Your Relationships

Consider the “We.”  Every relationship has three parties involved – the you, the me and the shared space of the “WE.”  However, we are not inclined to think this way.  In a winner take all philosophy, the relationship becomes about...

Surprised on a Sunday

It was a typical summer Sunday at church. Vacant.  Everyone was either sunbathing, sweating or sleeping somewhere, anywhere but in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Church. I was glad to be sitting for a moment, reprieved from the interruptive calls of...

A Day in Redskin Park

My son and I made our annual trek this Fall, all the way around the Beltway to FedEx Field – home of the Washington Redskins. We do it once a year, every season.  We find all our burgundy and gold gear,  pull out hundreds of dollars from the ATM for the over-priced,...

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into your self?”
– Rumi

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Finding Love Anyways

I have one of those persons in my life. You know the type. Controlling, dominant, critical, condescending, dismissive and disrespectful. Out-and-out emotionally abusive. It would be one thing if I could just say “good riddens” and give them my backside....

The Complexity of Hope

Like the rest of you, I too love hope.  And if we think about it, life gives us so much of it … and in so many forms too.  We get to kiss a tired, worn day good-bye and rise to the dawn of an unchartered day … seven days a week, 365 a year.  We blow horns...