If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.