Take a look at this picture. This is a wise beyond her years six year old who has more courage, resilience, and "living hope" in her small frame than most of us could muster in an entire lifetime. Meet Mae! Not once, but twice she has taken on cancer, two grueling years
Continue ReadingI can remember in my Junior Tennis days running what was surely my 50th suicide drill on the tennis court, and hearing my coach yelling those words across the court, "no pain, no gain." I didn't like the phrase then (or the suicide drills) and I surely don't like it
Continue ReadingRecently, I have been reading a novel about the life of the American novelist, Edith Wharton. The story opens with Wharton "wintering" in Paris. She is invited by the Comtesse de Noailles to attend her salon alongside Henry James and other well-known figures of the day. The French salon has quite
Continue ReadingI would not mind being one of Dr. Sanjay Gupta's groupie's! If there was ever a person in line to live or help others to live to be over 150, this is the man! He is a well-known neurosurgeon at Emory University and a war correspondent for CNN (he performed emergency
Continue ReadingThis past Holy Week, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris celebrated its 850th Birthday. To commemorate this special occasion, the Cathedral was gifted with a new set of bells. On Palm Sunday the bridges and gardens around the Cathedral overflowed with people to hear the first ringing of the Cathedral's new
Continue ReadingWelcome to Holy Week! I wish I could say it's all pastel-hued easter eggs, bunny tails, and Cadbury eggs from here. But that's not reality. That's not how the story was written. That's not how our story is being written. Part of being human is finding oneself on the edge
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