Holy Week . . . Passion and Grace We enter Palm Sunday with triumph and joy, a journey into Jerusalem; our own lives seek the journey to return home, to enjoy friends and wonder about our future. Jesus was deceived by false claims of devotion.…
Seeking out a bit of beauty every day is supposed to help a person fight despair and anxiety, and it can counter the effects that ugliness has on our psyche. Or so they say. Anyway, in that spirit, I asked my husband to take this…
Enough! of the nonsense of trying to frame Amanda Knox for a murder that someone else is already serving time for, someone else whose presence at the crime scene is supported with evidence. Seems unfathomable that this young woman must endure more publicity, more scrutiny…
We get a lot of cold sores in my extended family. In old family photos, there's usually one of us kids with an ugly sore on his or her lip. When we get colds, we break out with them. In recent years, prescription creams have…
This most wonderful photo taken by Dan Pelle, just after GU's heartbreaking loss Saturday, reminded me once again how grieving the loss of sports games is a preparation for deeper griefs in life. Especially this reality: When it's over, it's over. In hospitals, after someone…
Kaiser Health News has a fascinating story on its website about a Denver-area doctor, Frank Dumont, who regrets not asking his 70-something depressed patient if he had guns in the house. From the article: Dumont's patient shot himself in the head with a rifle. Dumont…
So many journeys at this time of year...vacations, visiting friends and journeys to a final home. Poet John O'Donohue - who died suddenly a few years ago - writes beautiful words for the traveler: For the Traveler Every time you leave home, Another road takes…
Former Washington Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers, who retired at the end of 2012, has announced on his blog that the tongue and mouth cancer he's been battling has spread. He wrote March 7: "The latest test results are not good.The cancer has spread.We are…
St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of the sisters who taught us at St. Charles nearly 50 years ago. They were really into Irish dancing and nearly every recital or spring event included girls (and the guys?) doing Irish jigs. Our mothers were called upon…
Pope Francisco in his first meeting with the College of Cardinals today, as reported in the Vatican Information Service. "Courage, dear brothers! Probably half of us are in our old age. Old age, they say, is the seat of wisdom. The old ones have the…
Who will the new Jeopardy host be in 2016? We have watched Alex Trebek for decades, but eventually everyone retires, even game-show hosts. Two candidates’ names are circulating in the media. What do you think the given answer will be? (S-R archives photo: Alex Trebek)
He appeared humble and gentle as he stood at the balcony, asking the crowd below to bless him and pray with him. The Catholic Church has undergone a purging of evil in the last decade with brave adults telling horror stories of abuse during their…
Every Catholic, likely, places upon a new pope all their hopes for a better, different church. My dream has long been for a Vatican III to which the poor and women and others not in the power structure of the church would be invited. With…
Today begins the conclave of Cardinals to elect a new pope. Who do you think will wear the white garment and stand at the window? While the rest of the world tweets, emails, texts and blogs, the men in red sequester themselves without electronics; instead…
One secret to longevity and healthy aging is to continually challenge yourself, despite aches and pains, general fatigue, temporary or permanent disappointment in friends, family and life. And anyone who reaches late 50s, early 60s, has been visited by all of the above. My colleague…
The news this week that a wealthy space tourist wants to send a man and woman on a 501-day trip in space toward Mars, immediately reminded me of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, The Long Morrow. The 1964 episode was about an astronaut…
Writer and moviemaker Nora Ephron kept her illness very secret and so her death last year shocked almost everyone. Today in the New York Times, Ephron's son, Jacob Bernstein (his father is famous Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein) wrote a beautiful piece about his mother's illness…
When it comes to health issues, the media reports contradictory “evidence” almost weekly. Once again, we hear that what we thought would protect us, may not actually do anything good at all. What is a person to do? My doctor says, “Be sensible. We may…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report today on another drug-resistent bacteria that is spreading in hospitals and kills half the people who get a bloodstream infection from it. Drug-resistant germs called carbapenem-reistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, are on the rise and have…
They are arriving in Rome and ready to vote – behind closed doors. With scandal as part of the drama, cardinals begin the process of discerning who they believe the Holy Spirit wants as the next leader of the world’s Catholics. But the world’s Catholics…
Some students take to traditional learning as easily as a fish to water – others feel like they are drowning in that water. So, how do we make learning – learning? You can make a difference. A friend who serves on the local school board…
Can't sleep? Maybe you should look way back in your past to its possible origins. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports this week that "the origins of insufficient sleep can, in certain cases, begin early in life and pose lasting consequences. A retrospective…
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
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