Pete Seeger was a family favorite when I was little. My two sisters and I, as well as our parents, enjoyed his classic hits, learning them by heart. This Land is Your Land was my personal favorite, although written by Woody Guthrie in 1940. Imagine my delight when I...

Let’s talk about puritans and what they brought to the new world, which is rapidly becoming the old world. Do you value working hard just for the sake of hard work? Does it give you self-worth? If you stopped working hard, could you love yourself as you are? Can...

(I wrote this ten years ago. and feel moved to break it out again because we in the USA have a President who thrives on whipping up drama, and it can be hard not to get caught up in the swirling vortex of it all. Even those who stand against Trump sometimes find...