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Mary: Portrait of Faith

​(NOTE:  This is a reprint of my blog entry from 2021, with updates.)   No one enters parenthood prepared.   Original art:  H.J. McEnroe Two-thousand years ago, a young, unwed Hebrew...

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Mary: Portrait of Faith

​(NOTE:  This is a reprint of my blog entry from 2021, with updates.)   No one enters parenthood prepared.   Original art:  H.J. McEnroe Two-thousand years ago, a young, unwed Hebrew...

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LIFE…WITHOUT REGRET

“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”​It’s a common, if well-intentioned greeting we bestow, rather robotically, upon each other with each rotation around our star.  Why…?

LIFE…WITHOUT REGRET

“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”​It’s a common, if well-intentioned greeting we bestow, rather robotically, upon each other with each rotation around our star.  Why…?

CONTENTMENT

It happened before I knew it.​One recent, early Sunday morning, driving to a small church for mass, a gray Ford pickup pulled out onto the blacktop, less than a quarter-mile...

CONTENTMENT

It happened before I knew it.​One recent, early Sunday morning, driving to a small church for mass, a gray Ford pickup pulled out onto the blacktop, less than a quarter-mile...

“JESUS, REMEMBER ME…”

There’s an old Jewish joke, goes like this:Every day, Morrie has lunch in the same deli, and every day Morrie orders the beef barley soup.One day he gets his soup, and as...

“JESUS, REMEMBER ME…”

There’s an old Jewish joke, goes like this:Every day, Morrie has lunch in the same deli, and every day Morrie orders the beef barley soup.One day he gets his soup, and as...

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE…

​An attorney told me a joke: “What do lawyer’s and sperm have in common?”Answer: “A one-in-a-billion chance of success.” ​With our president now in Brussels, later in Warsaw, to confer...

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE…

​An attorney told me a joke: “What do lawyer’s and sperm have in common?”Answer: “A one-in-a-billion chance of success.” ​With our president now in Brussels, later in Warsaw, to confer...

HOLIDAZE: A CHRISTMAS RANT

Jewish heritage and blood are my forefathers’ “gifts” to me.  Calling me a Jew and assuming I’m about all things Hanukkah, however, would be as unwise as deciding – because...

HOLIDAZE: A CHRISTMAS RANT

Jewish heritage and blood are my forefathers’ “gifts” to me.  Calling me a Jew and assuming I’m about all things Hanukkah, however, would be as unwise as deciding – because...