Note: This post was recently published at Huffington Post. You can read and comment there as well. Organized religion and controversy seem to go hand in hand. Like milk and cookies, peanut butter and jelly, gin and tonic, Bert and Ernie. And today’s controversy du jour: marriage equality. The hate-filled…

The kaleidoscope zooms in on a bright summer day with a counterclockwise turn of the dial, capturing in its light a multiplicity of stories and personalities. The kaleidoscope…

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”  — Marcus Aurelius  This week has found me in a teensy bit of a funk -…