On November 29, 1963, exactly one week after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, she prepared to walk out of the White House for the last time. To the outside…
Being compassionate involves more than kindness. It is the passion to develop strategies and structures to lift up those who are down. If our political and economic systems allow the marginalized…
For years, Lhakpa Sherpa lived a life that gave little hint she was one of the greatest mountaineers in history. After moving to Connecticut, the single mother worked physically demanding,…
He is 85 and insists on taking his wife’s hand everywhere they go. When he was asked why his wife kept looking away, he responded, “because she has Alzheimer’s”. Then…
ASK THREE QUESTIONS Ask three questions to see what’s inside:What makes you laugh, with nothing to hide?What makes you angry, and ready to fight?What makes you cry, long into the…
When Oliver Cromwell in 1764 was about to have his portrait painted, he coined the famous expression: “Paint me, warts and all!” Do we really know for sure that the…
During Pope Hat Night at Rate Field (White Sox Park) on Tuesday, August 11th, the Chicago White Sox distributed 40,000 custom papal miters adorned with the team’s logo to honor Pope Leo XIV, a…
I make fifty-five thousand dollars a year. On paper, that sounds grown up. Respectable. The kind of number your high school guidance counselor would nod at and say, “See, you’ll…
