I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.