“People who need people are the luckiest people in the world,” according to Barbara Streisand. Well, I’m not sure if all that is true, but as a new blogger, with aspirations of becoming a published writer, I can tell you that I definitely need people. I am late to the…
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. ~Author Unknown This Sunday will kick off the start of National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 14-21,…
I recently read that the city council of Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago, had approved the development of Naperville Family Building Center, a fertility clinic run by Dr. Randy Morris that will provide in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments to couples struggling to realize their dream of raising…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Today’s piece is not the one I had intended to post. Planning to link up with Monday Listicles on the topic of “roads,” my original piece was…
As many of us commemorate the Easter holiday this weekend with secular traditions and/or religious rites, let us a consider a different perspective. Let us consider the perspective of grieving mother, a pragmatic believer, a faithful realist. I first heard the poem “Mary” by Philip Appleman at church during the…
With news headlines filled with injustice, violence, and oppression, it is hard not to feel overwhelmed. We are outraged by the Trayvon Martin travesty and we want answers. But there are none. We feel helpless and angry and confused. We feel like a burned out lamppost – wanting the light,…