HIV/AIDS has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. The disease, with origins in the 1920s, blew up in a devastating fashion in the 1980s. Since then, it has surrounded the globe and is called by  …
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“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” -Alphonse Karr “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”  …
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Zanna’s Gift: A Life in Christmases follows the life of the Pullman family through the eyes and experiences of Suzanna. Four years old when her older brother dies, Zanna must work through her grief and in  …
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At our very core, we human beings are born to be in a relationship with each other. This attribute is a big part of what it means to be human. Consequently, it is those relationships  …
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Face it: we’ve all been through a lot over the past year and a half.  And it’s not like we’ve experienced anything like this before. The last major pandemic was in 1918, over a century  …
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Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes and figures. A square piece of paper is folded so that it looks like a crane or an insect or a box or a camel  …
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SPOILER ALERT for the film News of the World On the surface, News of the World—based on a book of the same name—tells the story of a Civil War Veteran who not only shares the  …
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I like to walk. I was a hiker as a kid, and in college, I would go out walking especially if I had something difficult with a relationship to figure out or a struggle I  …
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There is just no way around it. Grieving sucks. It is challenging, difficult, life-changing in all the ways that it grabs a hold of us. It is uncomfortable, disconcerting, and exhausting. When we are in  …
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“Where were you?”  That is a question asked of those who remember the assassination of JFK. It is striking that however long it has been they can still remember vividly that moment. Where were you  …
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