Aging. In a go-get-’em, hyper world, it is a dreaded companion, a sign of inevitable decline and, eventually, death. Yet what the world sees as an ending...
Aging
The lines on her face indicate that Sister Miriam is well into her 80s. But she tells a visitor that she is 40. It isn't a concession to vanity. In her...
The spiritual side of getting older. The signs are plentiful. You begin to pay attention to those drug ads on the evening newscasts promising relief from...
My aunt Teresa was a collector and creator of religious artwork. Like many women of her generation, religion defined life down to her taste in decorating...
When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the...
As he’s entered middle age, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who has been riding the spirituality circuit for more than 30 years, has started to think about...
The decline of a parent is not just a physical and financial challenge, it's a spiritual one as well. Kathy Bingham knew she had reached midlife when...
Little kids and old folks find comfort in each other’s company at an intergenerational center. At age 3, Annie was everyone’s darling, an...
