I wander off.  I always have, even as a child.  I don’t know why, but I do.  I have heard several stories told of just disappearing when I was little.  Mom has told more than once the story of how when I was just a toddler, I got up one morning, got a chair and unlatched the front door and walked outside, down the street (our house was on Poplar) and crossed Perkins Road. …

In the closing scene of the 1980’s movie, Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, Timothy Hutton’s character Conrad mentions to his Dad (played by Donald Sutherland) how he always thought that his Dad had a ‘handle’ for everything and how he admired that about him.  …

Think of a time that you felt needy.  Maybe it was a time that you felt alone or perhaps ignored and unimportant.  Aside from the circumstances that you may associate with why or how you came to feel that way, simply stay with that feeling itself. …

As we look about our world today, our neighborhoods and cities, our country and our world, we see senseless violence and dehumanization everywhere. We may wonder “where is all this coming from – all this hatred and focused harm on each other?” …

I can see myself as a child standing in the center of a merry-go-round, as my brother begins to push the great circle so that it is spinning.  As the centripetal force builds, I can feel the force pushing me outward yet I struggle to remain poised in the center. …