A new posting for "Gather the Pieces" will occur on June 6. Thank you loyal readers.

A few months after we put our first cat, Luke, to sleep due to recurrent kidney stones, Anna and I went to the Humane Society. We walked i...

Every Tuesday I volunteer at Indiana University Hospital on the north side of Indianapolis. I serve in the chaplain department and help with...

I became aware of journals and keeping a journal in the early seventies after I finished graduate school. I learned then that writing can...

I picked up the magazine that arrived earlier in the day, grateful for the way the wooden kitchen chair welcomed my tired body. Hoping for a...

Walt Bettinger, CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation, shared in a recent New York Times article (February 7, 2016) about an experience he had ...

Found Hope A few years ago I was experiencing a rough patch in life and decided to seek counseling for my concerns. One day after an appoi...