I encountered a concept today that I can’t get out of my mind — children’s hospice. I know that hospice exists; I’ve seen someone go. I know that children get sick; I wrote a book about it. Yet, in my mind, those two saddest thoughts never met until today, when I ran across a website [...]
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Sad Things I Wish I Never Knew
Posted in Health Care, Science & Spirituality on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Orphans of Destiny
Posted in Original Fiction, Science & Spirituality on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He grew up on stories of rescued children — of Moses, who, in being rescued became the savior of a civilization, and of Jesus, who was adopted by a father who loved him like his own. “You are meant for great things”, the nuns had said. “Saved children have a special destiny. But for now, [...]
A Shadow Dog’s Promise
Posted in Original Fiction, Science & Spirituality on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight would be the final test. A perfect night of distractions. Gretchen stirred her batch of special cookies, sure to tempt the town’s children who were gathering on the dock. Shadow balanced on his hind legs with his great, black paws on the cabin windowsill as he sniffed at the darkening dusk. Gretchen had [...]
Easter Admission
Posted in Science & Spirituality on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We all hope that when we’re faced with a moment of truth, we’ll stand up for what’s right and for the people we love. I want to believe I’d run back into a burning building for my niece. So to know the moment is coming and to lack the strength to live up to it…it [...]
Cyber Disinhibition
Posted in Integrity, Science & Spirituality on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the last day of my first year of blogging! Of course, when I included kittens in the title of the first post, I didn’t foresee that by the end of the year the kittens would actually be writing the posts. The reason Spunk and Teddy have taken over recently is that months ago, [...]
Strength in Sadness
Posted in Science & Spirituality on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month thinking about the Emily C. Specchio Foundation. Most of the organizations I donate to are born of sadness, but none have touched me in the same way as this one. It seems that Emily Specchio’s life was a seed that her family cultivated in their [...]
Measuring Aura
Posted in Science & Spirituality on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you saw a course on “aura”, would you assume it was taught by Sheila the Psychic or Beverly the PhD? If someone said there was an “electric” feel in the crowd at an event or that two people had “chemistry”, would you say those characterizations were literary analogy or biologically based? I have always [...]
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