Co-President’s Messages

It will be September when you read this column, but it will be unlike any previous September in my lifetime. You are living those changes just as...

I try to read less news, watch less news, and worry less about the news I do see. I am not succeeding but I have, however, noticed a slight...

Now what? For me, this pandemic started by the end of February. I had already bought a box of masks and one of gloves, both for me and my 90 year...

It is three months into this new covid-19 world. Is it still possible to be optimistic? A pandemic of biblical proportions? An economic crisis...

I was thinking about how much I seem to be “taking” these last two months—nearby friends shop for me, neighbors walk with me, albeit masked and...

It has been crazy I have been crazy  My body has been making me nuts  The news has landed in my belly and made me sick Worry has become...

It’s that time of year……temperature is two degrees outside, bright sun bouncing off snow and ice, pale blue sky wherever you look and almost no...

Grief is grief. We all mourn our losses. How we mourn, however, is shaped by many factors. Religious and cultural practices shape our beliefs and...

I went to a 90th birthday party recently. This was for the patriarch of a family I have known for 50 years and the parents, the children, the...

Happy New Year………or maybe not. Every new year for the first five or so years after my son was killed in an accident, I would go to the cemetery...