It’s the news no one wants to hear. “Due to cost cutting measures, your position has been eliminated.”  A job that I had been recruited for and dove into for more than a year, is no longer. My initial reaction was a mild emotional freak-out that turned into a sense of knowing that all is…

One of my greatest joys in my role as an interfaith minister, is officiating at weddings. Although I have lost count, I estimate that I have married over 300 couples since being ordained in 1999. Mixed gender and same sex couples have walked down the aisle toward the altar and together, we have sealed the…

Writing this while listening to my favorite radio station, WXPN, based here in the Philly area. Feet tapping along to the music, bopping into my day. Harry Connick, Jr. is serenading me at the moment. Awoke at the crack of dawn as has been my pattern in the past few years, no matter what time…

It’s been said that children don’t come into the world with a how-to manual. Most parents find their way through the sometimes bewildering maze of parenthood on auto pilot or through the ways in which previous generations raised them and their parents. The book entitled: Parenting For Life, penned by Nina Sidell, MA is the…

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