In a flash, memories of joy and sorrow mingle in thanksgiving.

The real sting of death is the thought that all life’s possibilities were supposed to wait until I got around to paying attention.

Giving our time to our congregations can be spiritually transformative.

Where should we assign the burden of proof for ideas about the afterlife?

I haven't played chess in decades, yet somehow I've ended up with a chess player's worldview.

The only way to prepare for facing Alzheimer's is to remain attentive to the present moment.

I am not sorry that I used to be ‘one of those angry women.’

We only find ourselves when we lose ourselves in service to something that transcends us.

A family holy enough to merit the highest forms of reverence.

The UU Principles are demanding enough to make me whine.

A spiritual practice my wife and I cobbled together, the Unitarian Universalist way.

A paradoxical power is revealed in people the world despises, in people the world deems weak.

Maybe I went too far mixing V8 and Pop Rocks, but life isn't always sweet.

There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.

My first encounter with Unitarianism.

Saying goodbye to the home where I raised my children.

People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.

An Iranian-American holds her breath as hundreds of thousands march for democracy in Iran.

Volunteering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and the aftermath of my diagnosis with ALS—has helped me appreciate the complexity of asking for, and offering, help.

The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.