Bringing light to the world

During the days surrounding the darkest of the year, people in various faith and cultural communities throughout the world experience a glorious season of light: glowing public decorations, sky [...]

  Many of us just learned for the first time about an amazing convergence of circumstances: The moon is exactly the right distance (400 times closer to Earth) and exactly the right size (400 [...]

Recently I received a phone from an acquaintance I hadn’t spoken with in several years.  Although not the reason for the contact, during our conversation Ricky Turetsky told me a fabulous [...]

Years ago I worked for someone determined to earn a million dollars by age 30 (sounds modest now, but this was way before the dot-com explosion and Wall Street gone wild) — and do something [...]

In the summer of 1969, Joni Mitchell’s manager advised her to forego performing at a “three days of peace and music” festival in New York State (so she could instead appear on the televised Dick [...]

In her 80s, Rose Schotz unexpectedly emerged from a mysterious weeks-long illness that had brought her close to death (and sometimes begging for it). She had already survived the Nazis, two bouts [...]

Our group leader challenged us to find a particular souvenir during our impromptu stop at Manufaktura. But he provided no description or clues about where to look for it in the massive shopping/ [...]

The bars over the broken steps down into the shattered hell that had been an Auschwitz death chamber seemed to be shedding tears. Residue of rain (and snow and hail) earlier in the day, the [...]

In the days leading up to the kick off of National Child Abuse Prevention Month (April), I was given the opportunity to view the trailer for a chilling documentary in production. It focuses on a [...]

You know the prescription for gloominess: do something kind for someone else and feel better immediately. If you’ve ever had occasion to test its effectiveness (and who hasn’t?) you also know [...]