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Ever felt words hit hard as a fist? Ever felt them thrill you? Nelson Mandela, who opposed the South African apartheid regime and was imprisoned for almost three decades, knew the power of words. He has said, “It is never my…

Sometimes, when my grief is so deep that even the bliss of sleep cannot ease the aching of my heart, I awake with tears in my eyes. Sometimes, when the world has wailed with agony…

Is it better to arrive late – or ugly? Arriving late is just another way of saying, “My schedule is more important that yours.” Arriving ugly is like wearing a sign that says, “You’re not…

A friend called today to thank me for an article I wrote in 2005. She found it tucked inside her father’s Bible after she and her sister placed him in a memory care unit. She…