Dear friends— During my sabbatical, one of the things I realized is that I wanted/needed to set aside more time for writing.  I love to write but I don’t do it very often, primarily because I get distracted by other pressing matters.  Anyone relate to that phenomenon?  😊 So I decided to create a new…

Dear friends— I confess that I am having a very difficult time focusing on much of anything today, and I wonder if I am the only one.  I find myself bouncing from different news sources to social media like TikTok (where Ukrainians are livestreaming from bomb shelters with shrieking air raid sirens in the background). …

Dear friends— I imagine that many of you are struggling with the state of our world…the Oxford shooting, the new variant, the increasing darkness of winter…I know that I am.  This past week has been particularly hard.  It is difficult to stay hopeful in the midst of so much uncertainty and continuing bad news.  And…

Vasanth Rajkumar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dear friends— Many words have been spoken and written about the murder of George Floyd, and many, many more will be written and spoken about the verdict of guilty, guilty, guilty that came down yesterday.  I do not presume that my words to be any wiser…

Dear friends— If you are like me, you are having a hard time focusing on anything other than what transpired yesterday in DC (and in several state capitols).  In just the last 72 hours, we have been on an intense roller coaster ride, first witnessing some incredibly powerful results from the GA runoff elections where…