When they brought her to be baptized, she was given her mother’s name, Aurelia. But when her father peered into her cradle he announced, “her hair looks like thistledown”.  Her

On days when I feel, like the poet, “that the world is too much with us,” I often turn to one of a handful of poems that through the years

Every day, before we began to work, Charles would gather us in a circle, invite us to join hands as he prayed, “Heavenly Father, thank you for this day that

That Old Story, Limerick-style.  Part 2, (in Egypt and so on) In Egypt, Joe had great success. But for others it was simply a mess. Israel was oppressed, distressed and

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I was fourteen when my handsome and adored older cousin asked me to be his baby daughter’s godmother. The tradition went back at least three generations. My mother had been

Next year, on this day, Concord will celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle at the Old North Bridge.  I imagine it must have been a day

She was always glad to see me. The day might be sunny, stormy, dismal or freezing, it never affected her mood, as far as I could know what her mood

It was a misty moisty morning. Because I had missed my group walk at Walden Pond, I was feeling as cloudy as the weather. Off, then, to do some errands,

  A man who went by the name of John wrote the following story about Jesus around thirty years after it took place. Jesus had been a wedding guest at

It was the first day of “No Mow May” and I was supremely annoyed.  In the meadow near our house a neighbor powered a loud and noxious gas-fueled ride-on lawn