I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as ….

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know….

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope..

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely….

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We….

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind..

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when yo….

But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who remi….

Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that….

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them..