The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disa….

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years..

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness..

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world..

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be n….

Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and s….